Don't do chaotic raid again

[AllenThyl]

It's really a shame that they don't use this content as a stepping stone towards higher difficulty levels,
as higher difficulty levels won't motivate the majority of the player base to engage with them.

Why? Why is such a thing even required? The normal raids exist. The Alliance Raids exist (and the DT difficulty is up quite a bit compared to EW). The Extreme trials exist, especially EX1 and EX2 are quite a bit easier mechanics wise. And with current gear, also more forgiving. The current Unreal exists, which is basically the most beginner friendly Unreal there could possibly be! At some point, if someone is interested in the harder content, they will have no choice but to actually go into said harder content. All this talk about "introduction" and "stepping stones" and similar nonsense is just the normal excuses people make for procrastination. There is no shame to join a "beginner learning" group, I regularly see them in pf. There is also no shame in making one. And there is especially no shame in just trying to get the first mechanics of a fight down until comfortable, instead of prog lying, which has become way too common.

It’s fair to create content for everyone, including the top 1%, but there needs to be a balance.

Absolutely blatant lie. It's frankly disgusting how easily you just make up a statistic like that without becoming ashamed of yourself.
According to lalachievement,
- 61.1% of characters have finished the DT MSQ.
- 54.6% of characters have cleared m4n once
- 22.1% of characters have cleared m4s once

That's not "1%". Even if you start liberally applying modifiers like "raiders with alts" and all that. Heck, I give you a modifier of 20%, it would still be higher than "1%". High end content isn't a "niche" thing in FF14. A significant portion of the player base engages in high level combat content. Just because YOU have a thousand and one excuses to not even start, doesn't mean everyone else has your problems as well. Stop projecting.