Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
... of course, they could always limit this horizontal progression to the EX Primal / Raiding scene, but said raiders would likely have similar complaints - they can't gear up replacements because it takes forever and if someone drops out of their static group they have to wait forever before they can even try to progress again.
WoW was like this originally and it caused a slew of issues. Given how much FFXIV seems to be designed around avoiding a lot of early WoW's issues, I think they likely agree with you (and so do I really).