Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
Because I'm a rather casual player with limited gametime who also plays several other games, one of which (Destiny 2) just launched an entire new expansion and is currently my "main" game while I enjoy playing thru that. When I come back around to FFXIV in a bit, this is a nice convenient step that'll let me pick up a couple relic weapons while doing basically whatever I want (read: enjoy most) in the game. Artificially long grinds aren't necessarily a good thing in my view.

Also, if your goal is to avoid a flame war, starting with "how in the world could anyone possibly like this?" seems either a brain-fart at best or disingenuous at worst.
tl;dr "i want to not play and still get all the rewards"