the normal content is too easy

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And yet they still destroyed the entire world and started over because they acknowledged that the game couldn't survive on enthusiasts alone.

Oh believe me the enthusiasts thought the game sucked too. They merely put up with it because Square promised changes were being made. So they had nothing to do with the decision to release a bad game.

I just don't think that it's a good idea to go back and fill the rest of the game with Savage-level mechanics because a handful of extreme raiders

And this right here is the logical failure point of everyone arguing against making the game challenging. They tend to take it to extremes and radicalize and distort the intentions of the OP every time this gets brought up. Noone is arguing this should be the case. In fact, I think you enjoy making up imaginary people making this argument so you can make it sound valid. No one is asking this, so you are answering to people who don't exist.