Famitsu interview with Yoshi

[Thayos]

Someone said it on read it and I'm going to say it here:
How did they expect people to NOT join together and zerg though enemies?
We do it in FATEs.
We do it in A-and-S-Ranked hunts.
We do it in 24-people raids.
We can even go into Diadem in a 24-people alliances via FC airships!
Don't punish the players because you though we wouldn't do what we normally do.

YES.

To just lower the drop rates as a response to zerging is so effing lazy.

FIX the content, SE. Add some kind of structure, like more objectives or some kind of popped NM hierarchy that FORCES people to explore independently.

This Diadem has the potential to be a whole new avenue of endgame, but right now it's just a god damned loot pinata.

him being a friend who we slowly formed a budding bromance with, rather than "that perv who wants my lalasausage" made his death WAY more emotionally impactful.

Fully agree. Japanese culture can be kind of weird, and Yoshi should give a raise to whoever changed the character.