Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Melithea]

why people leave? because is not fun... is totally the inverse of fun. when you have beat this dance... it's over, you will beat it almost all the time with the same group. they are trying to make a game a la darksoul into mmorpg... it's silly, it's not epic, it's not what we ask... we ask to be forced to play our character to the most extend of our capacity and more important in team! not right next to the 7 other member of the team. they need to add more interaction between class that will affect the teamplay!

Nothing in your entire post had anything to do with what you quoted, other than quibbling over the exact amount of time needed to clear Coil. That point remains the same. This game is casual paradise topped with a thin slice of hardcore. Mind you, I don't even consider myself hardcore. I haven't beaten T6 yet. I spend most of the day doing crap like daily treasure maps, supply and provisioning quests, myth farming and achievements. I find the Titan EX fight fairly easy, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't make me hardcore or elite/elitist. Maybe "above average" at the strongest as I said earlier.

The only thing I can discern from your post/rant is that you don't like mechanics, and then you basically complain about what an MMO is. It's unclear what you even actually want.

How is it casual catering?

Everything in 2.3 is casual content except for (probably) Ramuh EX. That's pretty straight forward. Maybe you have a different prerequisite for "catering" but then you clearly have a different threshold than the person I was replying to, who actually thinks there's too much catering to elitists in this game, the most casual MMO launched in 10 years and winner of a handicap accessibility award.