One of the major issues is FF14 community has a problem with motivating mastery of the game. While everyone is super friendly and nice to sprouts and casual players, the same can not be said on the other end of the scale, that is a problem for long term play. The "bragging rights" and reward for completing the most difuclt challenge is something that is not given its respect in this community as much as other MMO's, the ledgend title and its weapons should be seen as something to inspire to be one day but instead people just mock it while using a mod to take those rewards for themsevles with a smug superiority of beating the system. Taking and cheapening the rewards for mastering the game is negative for motivating people to engage with it for the long term to chase those rewards and have pride in overcoming those challenges.

They already crack down on RMT for run selling and gil selling to also try and combat this since it does cheapen the bragging rights of those items if you can just buy them? While the MSQ gets people in the door, it takes less than a month to finish, so there needs to be something to chase for the rest of the time you are subbed, you have to seek challenge somehow without gatekeeping content. One thing they could do is make content time limited so that the grandfathered prestige takes over but again, mods that get around that also ruins all motivation to chase such things.

The Ff14 community is terrible at patting people on the back for their achievements but very good at ripping people down over their insecurities of performance in the game.