LuckyBancho data shows that FF14 is in decline

[Bonoki]

Yeah pretty much this. There are some people who need to have opinions on everything, even content they haven't even experienced themselves lol.

Sums up Reddit and these forums in a nutshell. But sometimes it has a place and purpose. Especially along the lines of "I do not engage with this content whatsoever and absolutely refuse to because X reasons", so it does still at least count as a form of feedback. Just on here, it often is pinned against people who do enjoy the content so it's met with a hostile, "Maybe you should go get your feet wet before you complain about it".

Sometimes I will check out someone’s lodestone to get a frame of reference of what content they do participate in and compare it to what they are arguing (can be anything not balance) and at worse sometimes it’s just an eye roll and nothing more.

Sometimes over in the PvP section of the forums, you'll see people talk about their frustration on CC, ranked PvP, and FOMO rewards speak about their opinions and often get shut down by someone saying something along the lines of like, "Bro you ain't even in top 100! Your opinions don't count! Go git gud!" A little exaggerated I admit, but it usually goes something like that. If you have a 'bad take' the first thing people will do is scout you out to look for an explanation.

It will never not be funny to me how modern gamers are so mindbroken that they think achievements are content, and then try invoke them as a purity test when someone criticizes the quality or replayability of a feature.

Depends on your definition and interpretation. I think the weight and difficulty of the amount of provided achievements is largely at play here. For example, a normal Console/Steam game that has achievements for Xbox/Playstation/Steam I would probably consider to be a subfield of content to a certain extent. Now for FFXIV? I would flip this and not really consider it content because of the sheer volume of achievements the game has and the ridiculous amount of them that require 10000 X of something. Personally, I tend to ignore titles as a form of content, but the ones that offer a mount, minion, or glamour I'd be more open to calling those achievements content. [See people wanting Shadowkeeper as a Blue Mage reward behind achievements as an example]