All DPS clears highlight a problem with encounter design in ShB

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Oh I'm not defending the practice. I've been wanting more healing checks and dps checks in a lot more content ever since Stormblood.
It just wouldn't really be viable in SE's mind because they seem to be really focusing on new players and casual players this expansion to the point that what little depth all jobs had was ripped away from them. I even remembered where Yoshi said that WHM was hard to play back in Stormblood and they wanted to make the job "easier". Even solo duties, which isn't that hard frankly, has a very easy mode version, and most solo duties in the expansion literally only gives you 4 buttons.

It'll be nice if there's some greater push by the dev team for a difficulty bump in casual content that will also translate into a difficulty bump in EX and Savage, but the majority of the playerbase won't like that. I'm even more inclined to believe that they'll nerf Savage even further before making any non-high end content harder.

Also to be fair, E7S is leaning towards an EX fight to be honest. That fight's pretty easy even for current Savage.
E8S' add phase is probably a lot harder to heal than that fight.