SE, no effort anywhere lately.

[Kaurhz]

Between now and then we have...

New raid tier (4)
New savage raid tier (4)
New alliance raid
At least 2 new trials
At least 2 new extreme trials
Unreal Trial(s)
New Variant/Criterion/Savage dungeons
Major Island Sanctuary Update
Relic Weapon Upgrades
Relic Tool Upgrades
2 major MSQ content drops (at least)
That's not even taking into account what we are getting next week in 6.35.

You're outright trolling if you consider that to be "minimal content" and "maintenance mode".

Try harder.

I mean, I get their angle, because a lot of content just doesn't have a replay incentive behind it, at least not something that people feel they may get a tangible benefit on their character (Which for many people is their prospect of fun) - In this regard Variant dungeons and criterion would have been received much better had it a proper reward structure. I'm fortunate because a lot of my fun comes from completionism - I basically have infinite content in this regard.

But in the same vein, this has literally been the exact same thing since as early as Heavensward - So it's really nothing new. People have just simply played long enough that they have exhausted their 'catch-up' content, in effect.

[Denhith]

In this regard Variant dungeons and criterion would have been received much better had it a proper reward structure.

Absolutely agree. I'm hoping this is something they improve upon with future iterations.

[Kaurhz]

Absolutely agree. I'm hoping this is something they improve upon with future iterations.

Personally, I just like to think their idea behind this minimalism was just gauging interest and general reception before investing more resources, just as they did with Eureka. Anemos was about as minimalist as you can get, but they expanded on it. Aside from this, and unfortunately from our perspective, it's just not a good idea to go full-on with it from the get-go. I would like to imagine that if Anemos had the same system as Pyros or Hydatos, then it would be SSDD by the time we actually got to Pyros, same stuff, different scenery, no innovation.