How do people calling themselves casual feel about the difficulty level?

[lxSch]

I just don't see a point of doing any content past WP more than once.

i90 weapon - titan hm once, rest i90 - weekly myth cap.

So you're running stuff more than once... contradicting your own words...

If you want to prove someone wrong - at least read the whole message.

[Kosmos992k]

The difficulty level would be fine if the story was not gated by the most difficult content that also happens to be highly intolerant to lag, and a requirement for a static group of 8 characters to complete some of it.

Personally, I feel like you could make end-game as hard as you like so long as progression through the main story line does not depend on the uber hard content that so many yearn for. I play to enjoy my time, like a mini vacation, not to take on a second job. So, the difficulty level needs to allow me to ave fun and relax, and not stress out because we wiped again. I don't think the issue is difficulty so much as it is punishment, as in the game punishes mistakes with lethal penalties making it almost impossible to fight your way back into a battle that has gone badly.