Why pvp is succesful and pve is getting stale

[Gurgeh]

Am I completely out of touch?

Yes, you are.
If you were, why the players do high end content WITH a guide (written from who knows who) under the nose and a premade group?

Go blind, go with a random group and figure out the fight.
What really removed with the feast is the premade pvp group. CC is spicy because there is the hardcore highly skilled pvp player AND sackboy wiith a banana glamour.

I get why people are rude sometimes when they feel provoked, but some people, just want to mean to anyone who tires to be helpful. (Or they don't get rhetorical and its a 'neuro' thing.)

Valance, you are suggesting improving the game to make it interesting.

Gyactus is suggesting you create your own weird and wonderful ways to handicap yourself. (Its like people expecting me to make crafting interesting by not using solvers and macros, that makes it something... but not interesting. No they need to rethink crafting completely so I can get back to it as mini game. I work in software and code for fun. I don't get any satisfaction out of using a very well designed simple tool to so the work for me. And I wont feel good doing it the hard way when I cant even make enough gil to buy raid gear. My choices are boring or excruciatingly futile . Nice! Perfect! Change nothing! I had a friend sprout how loved crafting. He was kinda heartbroken to to find out all the effort he was putting in up to 60, just goes out the window and its all done for you later, and boy is there a reason why. He loved crafting. He was proud of it. [yup, no longer playing])

I also suspect you and Gyactus are talking about different games? Gyactus is talking about high end, you are might not be?

If its casual, yeah we are all doing casual blind. Its really piss boring by the time you've got five expansions under your belt.
No it really is, piss boring.
The lastest dungeon was 'wonderful'
The normal trials have been 'wonderful'
The normal raids were 'wonderful'
Although at the end of the day, I've literally barely seen a wipe except in M3 normal. Less in M2. None to mention in M1, M4. Yeah some but nothing I notice, a woopsie daisy. Your just praying for an inexperienced healer, no RDMs to back them up, and some inexperienced DPS to keep them busy.
Blind makes no difference.
But once OP expansion gear kicks in they will be piss boring again too. And those are not the majority of our content. The majority of casual content is Quarn and Labarynth. (I exaggerate but you get the point.)

Your not out of touch with yourself. Your not out of touch withe the friends you are talking to. And its the job game to entertain you, not your job to artificially add layers to the game to make it interesting. Even if we are talking about end game, I love blind prog, I hate guides, but once I'm at the sticky points, I'd just feel excruciatingly embarrassed asking party to explain or wait while I understand what this mechanic is that other people would call a 'limit cut?', where's the cut? what's limited? OK I think I got it... sorry whats limited again?