No no, it's Rise OVER Run; and other Math you get wrong. [VERY Strong Opinion; Bozja]

[CNitsah]

First of all Ilkil is meant to be a mount for people that wants to farm. It's like the Amaro mount, the TT card, mount, the Ozma mount, the freaking pterodactyl mount or any savage mount. They're meant to be reward for that go deep into the game. It's a reward not meant for casual players, but for people that like farming. Bozja is meant to be content for more classical MMO players, relatively long farm that meant to be retaining content that wants to play a long time. (And FFXIV farm isn't that long anyway, anyone that played a korean mmo will tell you that). Bozja Zadnor is only a 10 to 15 hours if you focus on the storyline. You don't want to involve yourself more, fine, but stop wanting to get everything given to you, because that ruining the game for other people. Because the lack of that kind of content is exactly what lead to the "nothing to do"/"relics suck" complaints in EW.


Now about your points

1 > getting 25 mil mettle is not that long. in zadnor, that about 4 hours of following the train.
2 > I'm kinda with you on people often not knowing the fight, that might be frustrating.
3 > at this point there are dozen a guides to tell you which is what, and most of lost fragment can be bought with bozja crystal, or on the market board. In a normal play, you'll basically need 2 or 3 actions and essences per class (get that to 4 or 5 counting DR). The rest is optional. You want to have them all? Most of the fragment can give you 2 or 3 different essences or actions. Those who can give more are drop like fly. You can buy 5 or 6 of each of them for cheap, and get your whole library unlocked.
4 > Once again farm for people who like that, for people who want to engage with the game on the long run.
5 > NONE of duel is mandatory for the field notes. There a few specific note (#14 for sure, I think #11 is somewhere there too) that are easier to get on a duel than in a CE, and need some kind of drop rate boost (I mean not 14 has a very low drop rate on a CE that's activated with the fate that spawn once every blue moon, it's the worst of time combination + abysmal droprate). But even there, those duels are easily cheesable. And once again, it's meant to be farm for people that want to engage with the game on the long run.
6 > wait, is that a "you have to complete the story to finish the story" complain. I'm not sure I get what this is about.
7 > I can see how this one is frustrating. It's something from old mmo, where you lost Xp when you died (but you also could lvl down, which we don't have here, and that's a good thing). But IIRC, you don't lose xp when you're rezed by someone. Just shout, and most of the time, someone will come and rez you. Fates are not that hard (even red chocobo), it's mostly a consequence of point 2, and then 10 people needing to do the job on a Fates scale for 30, because all the other died because they could not read the fight.

I agree with you Time=/=difficulty. But that's the thing, bozja is not meant to be hard. It's meant to be more classical mmo content, that asks a lot of farming. It's meant to be waiting content for people that engage with the game a lot between patches. I can understand how it's frustrating for some player, but some people really enjoy that, and it's important to have. It sure could be more satisfying, but needing less time to achieve is not the solution. I mean look at the backlash on EW relics. It's not even about the relics themselves, it's about this content being the retaining content for people that want to engage more deeply with the game.

I've farmed bozja like hell, I really liked it. and it kinda annoys me when people want to streamline the experience because it ask too much engagement for them. FFXIV is full of content that doesn't need much engagement, that's one time and never again. it's like 80 to 90% of the FFXIV content. So please, if you don't like that, just don't engage with it, but leave it to people that enjoy that. It's not a problem if you don't have all the mount. I mean Pterodactyl or the bicolor gemstone mount (the one that aske for something like 3500 fates) are too much grind for me. I feel they're just not worth my time and just didn't try to get them (and it's from someone who would love the pterodactyl).

It asks too much of you, just leave it. It's just a game, and there are tons of other content in the game that don't ask you that much engagement.