Namely, the people who speedrun dungeons without a word all day without ever caring about newcomers. The kind of people who sour the experience for said newcomers by not letting them watch cutscenes, not explaining anything, and complaining when they can't keep up. The commendations requirement means nothing since these people rake in commendations from other speedrunners just for being fast and efficient.

Meanwhile, I don't qualify as a mentor despite actively helping newcomers every day. Yesterday I spent 6 hours helping some new players in synced Coil for no benefit of my own. But because I don't farm dungeons and don't have a Tank job at 60, I can't be a mentor despite being way better suited to it than nearly every mentor I've seen.

Square Enix needs to seriously re-evaluate which kind of players they want to have mentoring. There should be an application process for each individual mentor. As it stands there are way too many mentors and most of them are just in it for the fancy crown and the "authority" and self righteousness that comes with it.