Please no more levels.

[ForteNightshade]

You can always untrivialise old content with MINE

Adding levels at least lets more casual people experience that once top teir content solo unsynched in many cases (outside the 5 people must click this ball type of trial) and get the stories.

Unfortunately, the sync system still makes us grossly overpowered for most old content. Alliance raids suffer the most but even normal modes from past expansions simply melt nowadays due to potency changes and the aforementioned sync being far too generous in where it puts us.

I don't mind the level increases I just always wish for a couple of things. A: 1 other spec for each job. I understand they're deathly afraid of this for balance reasons but they don't have to go too crazy with it, just give us a bit of variety so not every SAM is the same etc. B: I like the roulette system, I find it fun and helpful for people leveling etc but I do not like losing all my abilities. For example I am far more beefy and comfortable tanking Alexandria then I am tanking malikahs well for all the wrong reasons.

XIV's version of specs is essentially being able to swap jobs on a single character. They're never going to do it otherwise. Not only is it a balancing issue but that's essentially adding 21 new jobs. Considering how much they've struggled with creative avenues for what they're doing now. I can't imagine making specs that turn Dragoon into a tank or Summoner into a healer would ever go over well. Even if the specs were simply a handful of different abilities having a choice. Yoshida isn't wrong when he posits players will largely pick the stronger of the two (or whatever Balance suggests) and that's it. In other words, instead of every SAM playing the same, almost every SAM would. It's simply not worth the time for them to develop.