I'm specifically referring to the difficulty and 4 person size.

I think the difficulty speaks for it itself.

The light party size means it's much easier to coordinate than 8 person groups. It's far more feasible to grab a few people off your friends list and go, and FF has very little high end content like that. I know the dev team does have concerns about the challenge in designing such content, but I think Rathalos Extreme is a pretty good example that it can be done.

I'd like to see this development direction continue.