This games community isn't as "nice" as many claim it to be. Just look at how much people go at each others throats over the recent Fork Tower incidents, how much the hardcore groups blame casuals for dumbing down the game, how those same casual groups blame the hardcore over elitism, how people look at RPers as lonesome gooners who do things I will not say in this thread. Funnily enough, I now see casuals complaining that the hardcore crowd dumbed down the jobs to make it easier for Square to design raids with.

Many of these stereotypes can be true for these groups, but not everyone (I'd argue most) don't fall into those stereotypes. Hardcore players just like hard content, they don't want normal content taken away, and they'll learn how to play jobs regardless of how smart or dumb they are. Casuals just want a good time where they can log on, talk with some friends, do a roulette, or whatever the latest content is; they don't really care that they're not the greatest ever at <insert job here>, just that they find it fun even if they don't have full 100% uptime on their GCD. RPers just like chatting, getting into a character and be part of a story, some are happy to go into more mature stories, others just want light-hearted adventures; not all of them care to sexualize their characters.

Too many people see each other as the enemy, they just hide it behind a fake personality to not get in trouble with the GMs, but boy if that mask slips on another they deem as from the "toxic" part of the community, they're happy to report them out of the game.