Southern Front Problems

[Deceptus]

The problem with that is a good portion of the player base does not want to do things that take more than half a brain cell. That is why when they do come up with interesting fights, they get nerfed quickly and the fights also seem to becoming less and less complex.

Incorrect. Ultimately, the playerbase wants to be rewarded for their time spent.

Eureka got this wrong in Pagos

Bozja has similar issues. People are refusing to run Castrum in Bozja because it's simply not worth the time invested. You can easily come out worse than when you went in.

It's like they learned something, and then said "Nah, F* it. Here are some terrible design decisions that we've done in the past. Let's re-use them!".

Since they were intent on making Bozja only one way of obtaining the relic, and wanted to give players another means of doing so, what do you think a more appropriate alternative path would have been?

There's a segment of the population who are getting tired of SE trying to revitalize old content by putting the relic or anything else in there (crafting is another)

Embrace the new content, design for it. Not the content that is now 4 years old.