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

[Yukiko]

That could certainly be a possible "solution" in the future. Allow people to do content in a way that's reduced versus normal, but with the end rewards being lesser in quality/quantity/significance/non-existent. But it doesn't address the fact that as the JP blogger had mentioned, there is a concern as to the existent fragility of content. Making an easier mode probably wouldn't eliminate the chance someone messing up will ruin any/all progress done. Heck, if that factor was eliminated, then why would you need 8 party members? To pass content despite 50% of the group being dead for a prolonged while is laughable at best.

You remember older FF games?
4 Members, hard Boss hitting with AoE -> 3 Members down
Tank survived using Item to revive healer
Healer using Revive while Tank using Item to groupheal
Healer Revive (if mass revive then doing Wall) while Tank is using Item again groupheal (or reviving the other Damage Dealer depending on which Boss you are fighting)
Healer doing Wall (if wall already casted then hastga or doing now grouphealing) -> tank (mostly the hero or best equipped in group) begins with limit (he survived and is now in enraged mode) while Damage Dealer is casting some Spells or Attacks (or reviving the last member, supporting the group with silencing enemy or such...)

The point is: You can come back even when one (or all 3) messed up, as long as one player is alive there is HOPE... not so in FFXIV
Why is that sort of thing fun? Because when doing that you can not do Damage to the Boss and the game becomes more intense, its becoming deeper with each "turn" (turn does not mean Boss is waiting untill you do something, it just means you are now on the move)... That way Bossfights sometimes needed more than 4 hours to beat and with each attack it was like struggling, but still with HOPE... I miss that, in FFXIV we have: avoid it or wipe it !

Its my opinion, but SE is relying too much on AoE and avoid movement to keep players busy. Maybe because they fear the bad reply about 1 button smash we had in 1.x...