It's sad that Yoshi-P has to deal with these types of problems by trying to cater to the masses.

"In contrast, there are players who believe that, “Players grow together with their characters,” “If other players are power leveling, leveling up becomes meaningless,” “Power leveling will become a necessary part of the game,” and “Power leveling will disrupt areas for proper party play.”

He should just say: "Power levelling sucks!"

Again, SE is not learning from their past mistakes.

FFXI allowed power levelling and it was abused, but it was not half as bad as the current way FFXIV power levelling happens.

When higher level characters can kill monsters in a party and the lower level jobs do NOTHING and level up from the higher level work that is not fair and should not be allowed. Instead of "helping" by healing from outside of the party, the PLer is doing ALL OF THE WORK. This should not be allowed under any circumstance!!

I know this will be controversial, but one needs to look at a real world perspective. PLing should be like mentoring, not cheating. Do you want your children or their classmates tutored or to have them hire someone to take the tests? How would you feel if your children were doing their own homework and studying hard while their neighbor plays video games all day and hires someone to take their tests for them. Yes, your child will be smarter in the long run, but it won't be a fair system. The life isn't fair argument does not apply. It's how you design systems and apply rules that are applicable here.

The main problem is that they do not have any method to enforce rules other than a ridiculous Special Task Force.

I never played WoW, but understand that they have something called Wardens who are like GMs, but have real authority to ban people.

If they really want to make it easier to level jobs, then I suggest that they add Fields of Valor and Adventuring Fellows to FFXIV.

If there must be PLing as Yoshi-P is intent on allowing, then it should be like FFXI and allow healing from outside the party. We need more people levelling healer jobs anyway.