If I could interview Yoshida.

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You can't go a day without someone saying in almost exactly those words they want XI regurgitated into XIV.

This is what your insecure mind sees. No one says they want XI "regurgitated into XIV", you see more " FFXIV should be like WoW/Rift/Aion/SWTOR/TERA" which is somehow ok, but not SE using ideas from an MMORPG they created.

Time sinks =/= difficulty, I wish you people would stop confusing the two.

Only you are confusing difficulty with time sinks. CoP BCNMs weren't time sinks lol. When people talk about difficulty they're 9/10 talking about the battles.

Use your brain.