but it's also quite unrealistic
Then it is also very unrealistic that SE will see my money again on FFXIV.

Also, there is a middle ground between requiring titan (which was endgame content back then) and what we have now. I've never seen anybody complain about chimera and Hydra.

People said they didn't like running the same content again and again when everyone was farming light at Garuda, so this time, SE created a system where you could choose yourself which content you'd like to do.
Yeah right, lets choose between pest and cholera.