Would skill based match making be good for FFXIV?

[Shurrikhan]

This wouldn't work in SE's favor. Imagine a party of 4 bad players... Not all of them bad on purpose. They struggle with some MSQ boss and then one or more of them goes "omg i don't understand what's happening this game sucks" or something.

If all else about this idea were a net positive, then I feel all that issue would warrant is to have reduced the BS that contributes to punishment rather than challenge:

• Have the option to display fight-specific pertinent (de)buffs and their brief descriptions (additionally) in a separate area, with that description already expanded (perhaps to auto-hide after an appropriate time in which to read it, starting long but customizable to a briefer time) so that controller users don't need to jump through 4 hoops just to tab over said (de)buff and read it.
• If a mechanic is so convoluted or inaccurately telegraphed as to be a problem, fix it. If likely to be a problem only for a small group of players, but nonetheless a significant issue for that group, perhaps add a secondary or even tertiary of more obvious or explicit telegraphs, or even a post-fight hint, which would appear after the nth wipe (probably the 1st or 2nd in most cases).
• Replace the release option and the run back to the boss with, once the last person has died, the party respawning just outside the boss area.
• Get rid of the braindead-yet-unintuitive QTE events.
• Continue to avoid mechanics by which one player's mistake (especially any in no way aidable or recoverable by others) can kill others among their party.
• Etc., etc...