They've got some rather odd split directions with content that largely feel like they are competing with each other. On one hand there is high tier raiding in savage and on the other hand there's time grinding stuff and now exclusive seasonal rewards with PvP.

With the amount of content they got, FFXIV really does not need the kind of "bash your head against a number wall" content like Savage anymore. I've been doing it the past couple of tiers and it really starts to feel like "Well this armor looks cool and I'd love to dye it, but I'm spending 12+ hours a week on this and am missing out on stuff that I can much more easily clear without drama or burnout."

They also have a lot of content now that just automatically level syncs your gear to the max for the tier or caps it at an older tier, so it kills the whole point of getting to be "big number man", which is really what savage kind of amounts to. I mean great, you get to do big numbers but so does everyone else in the content that actually matters, not to mention with seasonal rewards you're literally crippling yourself doing the savage fights in terms of rewards. Unless the person doing savage has absolutely no life outside the game itself.