Not a single soul complained. In fact, it was rather the opposite. Everyone was supportive of it. Now fast forward 5 months, those people who were okay with it/didn't complain back then, are now complaining now?
Because existance of hard content was given in that kind of statement. Yet nothing relative hard exists in this game. People expected 12-hour-long-fights to be nerfed to 2-hour-long-fights. Not 10 minutes to 3 minutes. People expected 1% drop rates to be buffed to 15% drop rates. Not 100% to "trash". People expected content, that can be walkedthrough only by 5% of playerbase be nerfed to be accessable by 30%. Not 50% to 100%.

Yes, all those assumpotions were made by playerbase basing on FFXI experience, but, damn, you can't blame them, because no one in their mind expected that amount of idiocy from developers of longliving company.