Quote Originally Posted by Kaurhz View Post
They shouldn't be changing encounters to this degree just to accommodate for NPCs.
Again, it's pretty obvious it's not being changed for NPCs. We know NPCs can do some of these older mechanics because of how simple some of them were. If you analyze all the fights that were changed to figure out what was consistent about all of them, it's that new players frequently failed to figured them out, even on subsequent attempts. That they were not obvious.

In contrast, any normal content made now, things are obvious and as you go through the fight it all clicks without having to solve a riddle in some text or read the status effects, and this is so obviously why they are changing them.