Quote Originally Posted by VahnValbosce View Post
It is a Big Deal actually.

It presents a negative idea to the development team, that somehow they are creating raid content in the first place that is somehow WAYYYYY too difficult for the FFXIV playerbase. So then when developing future content, they will ALWAYS ease up on mechanics. Pretty soon the "past content Nerf" will expand into "current content Nerf". Don't think this will happen? If this Nerf Trend continues, you can bet top dollar that it WILL HAPPEN.
Nice slippery slope argument there. Plenty of games nerf old content when new content is added without suddenly dumbing down the new content. You can't know that SE will start making all encounters easy until it happens.