What is the point of arguing whether having less grind or more grind is good design?

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Agreed. ARR being the one exception to that. Having the option to nuke that progress entirely to skip the first step to the Atma weapon, along with Diadem killed this content.

You Mean the Heavensward Animus...unless Im dumb and didnt know you could skip the 1st step of the ARR Zeta.