Thing is casuals are the majority and raiders are the overwhelming minority. The people here on the forums are not even a tiny fraction of the silent majority who just enjoys the game.

So it saddens me to tell that to people but the game will do fine even if half of the crying (!) playerbase leaves the games behind forever. Raiders don't pay the bills anyways, i know many who just login into the game every 4 months to raid the current savage and then leave again.

The game is made for casuals, that was the core philosophy of XIV from 2.0+ on cause look at WoW and look at what happens to an MMO when it just has his only focus on the raiding scene.