If we don't see Major changes in 8.0

[Gurgeh]

Is true. Mao feels much same way and that why Mao now playings WoW. Howevers, Mao can only speaks for Mao. Other peoples might still likes FFXIV and that oks too. Mao hopings that peoples whats stay with FFXIV, continues to has funs with it.

This actually makes me sad. Mao sounds really cool. This is sad. You are loosing Mao and a lot like them.

I think what you're looking for is a new game to play my guy.

And all that's left is a purity of people like this that couldn't give a shit about the people next to them, as long as there are 7 other people pulling their weight in savage. Or, a concentration of people who want to tell themselves all they want is peace and harmony and its in others best interest to leave if they are unhappy, but if they could get in touch with their own motivations would realise that their real reason is the self interest of not wanting 'doomers' jarring with the comfort of their own personal delusion that 'this has happened before, and everything will be fine again like it was previously'.
It might be. But not unless CB3 make changes. That is what saved the game in the past.

I think there is something fundamental in Yoshi's thinking that he has deliberately not shared with us.
I think it goes something like this
"there are only two types of gamers, 'people who overcome' or 'people who completely lack any capacity to overcome' there is no spectrum in between. So just do forgone conclusion casual. Do savage. And do ultimate for those that want to spend more time on Savage. Extremes is just there to help people find out which category they fall into, but its not real content. 7 of those every expansion, will do. If they can stick 99 totems they'll leave for savage, which is the real point. If they can't they'll give up and go back to roulettes.
I think you can see this reflected in his use of the concept of 'Resistance'. Either something has resistance or it doesn't. There are people who want resistance. And there are people who don't want to see any resistance.
He has said he recognised people want more resistance, but I think he is humouring us, and I think he thinks he knows we don't really want resistance, just the illusion of it.

I seriously don't think Yoshi has a lot of respect for casual gamers, and you can see it in XVI 16, where the difficulty modes are a game breaking afterthought that leave no challenge left what soever. It was only 'tuned' for the experiences Dark Souls action gamer.

CB3 everything you did in the past was brave and new and risky when you first did it.
The thing you need to 'keep' doing, is being brave and risky.

I don't get why once you've done something, you think it cant be changed.

Variant was amazing! Fascinaing! Why can't you go back and rescue criterion by improving rewards and making it it Ex difficulty rather savage/savage+?
Why can't you rescue Chaotic by saying 'we realise the difficulty was totally wrong'. What people want is a Alliance+ Extreme- difficulty focussed using DF/RF queuing.
Why can't you rescue old alliances by tweaking them a little. Just let us see all the mechanics.
Why cant you rescue chloes and old Ex by getting everyone in the same Ex (synced echp butno minIlvl)
Why can't you rescue open zones by adding even '1' new thing after 7+ years of paper mobs and mechanic less , non-scaling fates.
Honestly for a group that is so determined to optimally do as little work as possible for maximum return, its amazing you take so little advantage of oppurunities to improve and fix what you already have.

I keep hearing about these world bosses. I've never seen one since once since Odin. Not once.
Why? you've done nothing to foster the community getting together to fight them. You've left it all up to discords groups, and you probably just want to keep that niche and optimal-meta-farming-for-high-end happy now. The people running the content... aren't even interested in the content, it just a minor means to another more important end for them.
So the rest of us if we do want to try them, will probably just find they are mindless tank and spanks once those discords get involved.