I agree, I mean you have tons of FORCED solo content through the MSQ. Even dungeons can be done solo with the trust system. I wish I could play the story with my friends but alas.

To me I'd wish the actual group content was designed towards group synergy and synchronization, outside savage that is, in this late Endwalker it feels like a lot of the grouped design (Alliance Raids, Normal Raids, Trials and Expert dungeons) can be done without talking to anyone. It's essentially solo content by design, we only have EX, Savage and Ultimate for those and it's kind of lonely not gonna lie, since 20% of the playerbase does the first 2 , and 5% of the playerbase does the latter.