Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post

Because the content is literally designed for it? Blind runs are fun (debatable with current pve), even going into something new with the strat and guide already laid out can be somewhat, but the fact remains that you'll spend 99% of your time regurgitating the same exact thing again and again and again and again, so it makes perfect sense for people to macdonaldize it to minimize failure and points of friction. And then people complain that XIV has a problem with content shelf life...
FFXIV is a game, and a game by definition has a challenge.
If you bypass the challenge cheating or leaving others solve the problems for you, the game lose an important quality/component of being a game. By definition, an activity without a challenge is a work.

Now, I cannot be a "student" forever. Soon or later I'll graduate (better sooner than later) and I leave the univ... the game.
If you don't feel any challenge anymore and you aren't cheating... good job, you are graduated now, but don't expect a game becoming more challenging with every expansion, because there are a lot of "student" and you cannot cut them out from the content.
If you think about it, the new 24 raid is a good thing. "students" can learn and have a challenge, "graduated" can explain and have a challenge leading a cat herd.

As I (implictly) said before: do not cheat, do not search for shortcut, accept n00bs and do not transform a game in a unpaid job.