Can Square Enix stop gate-keeping mid-core contents behind Savage ILvl on release?

[Volgia]

But in practice, since Savage is released on x.0 and Criterion/Chaotic on x.1, many people block out returners in x.1 (who didn't play in x.0 due to various reasons) from joining statics in the first few weeks. And remember, Criterion/Chaotic already have an abysmal participation rate as I posted previously.

This only happens in PF. You can recruit people to do Criterion and Savage, if there are groups and discord servers still doing the Baldesion Arsenal why wouldn't there be groups for Chaotic?