CBU3. Please respect your players.

[sharknado]

[*]Unchallenging dungeons, normal raids, and alliance raids

Not sure if normal should be "challenging" by most/all player's definitions.

[*]Crafting and gathering stripped of their complexity

It's just enormous time sinks doing brain-dead actions. For me, it looks like FF14 expansions are intended to be played on the first and last patch, possibly with scrip gear to avoid all the time sinks and whatnot. Marketboard mass crafters are likely happy though

[*]Manderville relics

I grinded few old relics but only because of their looks. Not really see a value in having some elaborate grind for weapons that usually have generic to moderate looks... maybe if Manderville weapons would be something more...

Meanwhile to play a CBU3 game like FF14 or FF16 is to be insulted by the developers as they put baby guardrails all over the game.

There is a very limited audience for hard competitive content and it brings a rather harmful meta-driven approach to the game.