Being denied the ability to ask questions in Feast is miserable

[Nalien]

And then we'd possibly be back to square one with SE claiming to have an overwhelming amount of reports involving harassment pre-match.

We wouldn't be right back at square one, because the toxic players would eventually be permanently muted, as they currently are. We'd be in the exact same situation we're in now after one season, the only difference being only the toxic players would be muted, the helpful players wouldn't be and can instead foster a more positive community as a result...

Heck, I'd say they're still getting an influx of reports involving post-game /tell harassment, mid-match quickchat and ignore mark spam and such when seasons start... All they did with the blanket mute was bury their heads in the sand. The problem hasn't gone away, it's just evolved, and it's actually evolved into something that's harder for GMs to tackle since a lot of the time it's not verbal based. You know what that does? It indirectly encourages such behaviour, because when people know they can get away with something, they're going to do it... If you actually have a punishment system in place, it deters toxicity. If you actually let the positive people speak, it counter-balances the toxicity as well... Win-win.

This isn't a fight between me and you though, I'm not the one you have to convince here

If nothing else it's a nice excuse to voice such opinions in the misguided hope that the community reps might pass them along to SE, but this is XIV and it is SE... So yeah, nothing will change, though they're welcome to prove me wrong.