What was they thinking when they did variant dungeons and criterion

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Endwalker has been consistently divisive. Consistently.

True. Criterion rewards, class balance every new raid tier (healing, phys ranged), gearing, housing, etc. They are at least acknowledged by the playerbase on several platforms. You wouldn't be wrong to call this expansion at least a bit "controversial".

Why does every single piece of content have to be long lived?

Wasn't the "no content left behind" philosophy one of the points of pride of this game? Specially standing up against wow?. Why wouldn't people want to have longer lived content?

I will keep saying this, but this game relies heavily on hooking people with the constant drip of perishable goods, and lately they have been more perishable than ever. You really feel that extra time added to the patch cycle.
Maybe you believe that the quick consoom model is your speed. That's fine. I happen to think that is, uh... unwise and it could be improved upon.

I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if some of the forum's white knights were paid by Square Enix to do what they do

Naaah, most of the time it's just a messed up sense of loyalty, ready to turn on a dime at Yoshi's / SE word.