Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[Aravell]

Honestly speaking, if the dev team's idea of complex content is 'do the dance this exact way and not a bit different or you all die', I think most people would agree that they should stop trying to shift all the complexity into the encounters.

[Absurdity]

Honestly speaking, if the dev team's idea of complex content is 'do the dance this exact way and not a bit different or you all die', I think most people would agree that they should stop trying to shift all the complexity into the encounters.

That very much feels like what they've been doing since at least the end of Shadowbringers.
I remember in E6S people just ignored Ifrit's football mechanic because it was easier and led to better party DPS to just sit north, stand in the explosion, take a vuln stack and ignore the entire mechanic instead of running around like headless chicken trying to find the safespot. And especially on tanks that fight was more about how many mechanics you could comfortably stand in to keep uptime than anything else because of how much forced and otherwise unavoidable downtime the fight had.

Come next raid tier and suddenly all vuln stacks were replaced by damage down so you had to do the mechanic exactly as the devs wanted, which players then cincumvented in E10S by stacking so much mitigation and shielding that it dealt 0 damage and therefore applied no damage down.

Now they went even a step further, either everyone does the mechanic exactly like they want or you wipe on the body check right afterwards.