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

[Iriadysa]

Believe it or not, however, most people I know only care about the loot.

This seems to be the underlying driving force behind the outcries to make content easier or, as the OP proposes, gear carried.

I do believe that loot is required to guide people towards doing content, specially when you have already beaten a piece of it to the point where you master it, but it seems that there is a big portion of the MMO gamer community that uses these games as therapy for some kind of hoarder problem and not for actual entertainment, thus finding every single roadblock a problem instead of a challenge.

The only reason I have to dislike huge roadblocks is the fact that it stops me from accessing other content. This would never be a problem if there was a shit ton of content to choose from, which is not the case in XIV due to its self-obsolescence tendencies, but this is a completely different topic.