I think I would call myself a midcore player. I'm not completely casual but I'm also not ready to invest the time and energy required for hardcore content.

The one thing that really stands out to me regarding Endwalker fights is that the difficulty in Extreme and Savage seems WILDLY inconsistent. I have only dipped my toes in Savage but the fights feel like they're all over the place.

You have EX1 and EX2, both of them are very easy. But then you also have Barbariccia. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed that fight. Took our FC group of people with varying skill levels a two or three sessions to clear but it was fun. It was challenging but not insurmountable with some amount of effort. Still, Barbariccia and some of the other Extremes don't feel like they should be in the same difficulty bracket.

Savage is kind of the same, I think? P1S is very easy. It was a good "baby's first Savage" fight for me, though. P2S is probably the level of difficulty that I enjoy the most. Same as with Barbie, you can't do the fight half asleep, but it isn't particularly punishing and can be learned in a reasonable timeframe. After that, P3S follows. I don't like that fight. I ended up getting the clear recently and it was not a good time. There are people who enjoyed it, I'm sure, I just wasn't one of them. But again, P1S and P3S feel like they shouldn't both be in the "Savage" difficulty bracket.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that there is some small amount of midcore content in the game, but it's a pain to identify it. We most certainly can't rely on the fight difficulty labels.