If someone makes a deadly boss mods type addon for ARR would you use it?

[Promethevs]

dungeon finder has nothing to do with addons.

on another point, the golden age of WoW (before dungeon finder) is largely considered to be TBC through Ulduar, where encounters were designed with addon usage in mind (the trend of designing to addons probably started very early on with blackwing lair, the 2nd raid of the original package).

some of the most dynamic encounters were introduced in this era. even with the addons certain bosses would take a month (the most being 5-6 months with Yogg'Saron with 0 titans) to take down by professional raiding guilds.

the notion that addons will make even the scrubbiest player a master and that the game will be played in ezmode is a poorly conceived misconception with absolutely no basis. there's always the potential to make a difficult encounter for even the best of players, addons or not. if you can't see that this is true, you don't realize just how much freedom you have in games like FFXIV in the way of margin of error on performance. the gap between the most difficult encounter here and the most difficult encounter in WoW's history is staggering.

the notion that addons also breed a game full of retards, ruining it for everyone who's awesome also has no basis.