Why I also dislike the Steps of Faith nerf, I can understand it from SE point of view.

My first character I got it on first day, with 1st DF group (and 3 friends) at 3th try.

With my second character I done it many many times, but 9 out of 10 times people leave the instance before even trying.
And the groups who did try, usually quit after 1 wipe. Some groups really had potential to win, but just given up too soon.

My friends and I wanted to clear it yesterday with a premade group, but things came up and we couldn' t do it.

My friend not gonna like it, he didn' t cleared it yet, but really wanted to clear it on the difficulty it had.
Wish you had the option to do it with the old difficulty.

Still the most difficult thing at SoF was to get a full group, willing to try it :/

I don' t care about ponies, already have it difficult enought to decide between my legacy chocobo, Magi (for awesome music), and the 2 seater (friend) mount.