Variance in player skill is hurting FFXIV's itemization design.

[RobbieH]

Diadem is NOT fine. It is a skull-imploding™ boring RNG grind clusterf***.

Of course Diadem is boring, it's a grind, every grind tends to be boring, grind for better rewards, that was diadem, don't come with the excuses of farming brain dead mobs when every dungeon in this game can be beaten with a blindfold, are you saying expert roulette isn't brain dead content and boring? I gave up on expert roulette and i get full lore cap in one day doing hunts, at lest it's a bit dynamic, god help me if i ever go into Hullbreaker HM again, if diadem was boring i don't know how to classify that dungeon.

Anyway i guess people don't understand what investment means, because that's the purpose of grinding.

I don't pay a sub to mindlessly farm mobs and if that is what casual content is supposed to look like, I'm out.

You don't? From my point of view everything besides end-game raiding (and props to SE for Weeping City) is exactly that, but to each their own.