The devs absolutely are not trying to remove fail from the game. Savage raids and ultimates are still extremely hard content. Normal raids and normal trials are still a fun challenge. If you want difficult content, do it. If you find it too easy with third party tools installed, uninstall them.

We'll see what the direction the devs take for dawntrail, and I'm not really concerned about what you all feel. I just don't want the devs to only hear negativity. People clearly are incapable of playing the game properly since they rely on third party addons that are against the tos. If they're not going to ban people for using them, they should continue to retune the game until people feel like they don't need them anymore. It really messes with the entire experience for people to be abusing addons and this is the real reason for the change in game direction. I think square enix is just tired of people cheating.