Please do not make group quest open world areas.

[Omegakiyohime]

I think people are kinda getting ahead of themselves here. Yoshi said mobs will be tougher to solo and you'll need to use all your skills if you want to take on more than one mob at a time. The mention of looking for help in beastman lairs was not because they are group content but because the mob density there will make it hard to fight only single mobs at a time. You won't need a group. You could solo it if playing cautiously or duo it fairly safely. Enough people have complained about a lack of challenging solo content that they clearly see a need for this.

They NEVER said anything about open world group content.

This exactly. However, this being the forums, people see what they want to see so you have 2 sides believing that it's the second coming of XI that are divided on whether or not they liked that game. We will be able to solo mobs (maybe no in high amounts), and I wouldn't be surprised if the usual suspects (blm, smn, sch, tanks (to some extent)) don't find it easier to solo more than 1. This isn't some forced grouping/socialization thing, it just means that mobs aren't going to die without you using most of your rotation and actually dodging things, which isn't a bad thing. If anything, maybe our choco companion will actually be necessary when soloing now.

That being said, get ready for the other side of this argument to post "Yoshi Lied" threads when Heavensward is released.

tl;dr: Everyone chill. It's not a return to EXP groups, it's more of a return to beta phase 3 when tackling more than 1 mob could kill you.