Anyone else concerned by the extremely low skill ceiling?

[Penthea]

I do think that current Savage is being killed too quickly

But you use exceptional players as an example for this. You can't use only these people as an indication for how difficult content is. You need a far larger pool of players than less than 1% of raiders. What you're doing is akin to looking at a medal winning Olympian athlete to gauge the average running speed of a human who merely jogs to stay fit and beat personal records.

Savage was meant to be something that requires effort and dedication to clear, and that not everyone can aim to clear.

It still does...just because you and your buddies clear things quickly doesn't automatically invalidate how difficult something is.

Now we've got Ultimate as well, which is the real challenge for those who seek one, but Savage doesn't really prepare people for it because of the disparity in difficulty.

You could say the same about normal to ex, normal to savage, even ex to savage a lot of the time but I don't see you complaining about this at all. Maybe it's because in other content you do expect a significant increase in challenge when you do a different difficulty, but you somehow don't when going from savage to ultimate. Hmmm.

And my fear is that Ultimate itself is going to be tuned down as a result, since the next step is for people to start complaining that they want to clear Ultimate as well, and want it to be made easier. And so the cycle will repeat itself.

Players always complain that they can't clear something regardless of difficulty, and SE have not given in every time. If they did the game would have little more to offer than Haukke Manor normal. SE changed how they balanced raid content during and after Alex because Gordias was an unbalanced mess that they learned a lot from.

But I don't think any amount of talking to you will change your mind. You have it in your head that top-tier raiders are somehow an appropriate reference point to how the rest of the raiders are doing. Oddly enough, you just make it look like that you're selling yourself short. It almost looks like you really don't know how skilled you actually are compared to most decent players.