Why the hate with endgame fights?

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Or that many raiders have claimed Midas/Brute Justice was their favorite raid tier in terms of fights and balance, or anything.

But Midas was just as hard in effect, and didn't reverse the trend. Otherwise we wouldnt have seen creator at all. From what I understand, Midas was different, but replaced one style of difficulty with another. It's hard finding data, but this references the lucky bancho census around the time when people were doing it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._ffxiv_census/

It didn't really reverse the decline, but kept parity with it.

This is actually a pretty good blog from that time, too:

https://fashionninjutsu.com/2016/08/...-some-numbers/

I think people here are forgetting the past a bit. Midas was still too hard in the dev's eyes, and didn't really fix the problem of people not raiding or participating. It didn't really reverse the decline at all, you needed creator for that. They made creator primarily to help raiders; mostly the midcore, which were pretty vocal about how HW had no content for them on places like reddit and how they were stalled at points and unable to progress at all. Casuals in general didn't really raid at all, which is why they made story mode alex...casuals didn't even touch the coils, and missed out on the story.