In a way it's SE behaviour who caters to people who are new to MMO's way too much. All the content that were "too hard" according to a vocal minority, got nerfed (not talking about "outdated" content nerfs).

Some people wanted harder 24man content. They indeed tried and I think they've done a good job. It's still very casual from a raider's point of view, but a baby step in the right direction.

The thing I noticed was how many people (on patch day), just wanted to rush through it, yelling at other people for not knowing what to do (I did it 1,5 hours after the server came up), trying to boss people around and what not. Of course, this behaviour is just laughable acutally, but it's also what has been the trend this past year for FFXIV: make it accessible for new players, too hard = nerf.

I hope 3.0's normal and hard mode for raids are a start.