It does feel a little bit of a slippery slope to me. Granted, no, I'm not a raider, but it does feel odd when groups coming to the game basically have people custom creating mods for them on day 1 while native players of the game have been doing perfectly fine with nothing more than a damage parser for years. Are the newcomers less skilled? I doubt it. Are the fights in FF14 harder? Presumably not. But it really does speak to the experience itself just being different and that the newcomers are essentially forcing their way onto 14. While it's fine for them individually, you just know it's going to lead to everyone and their dog doing it, necessary or not. And I guess I find it funny that some of the most hardcore people in wanting the game to not only stay difficult but get more difficult, those who are adamant in wanting others to just git gud, are just shrugging their shoulders at what is in some way training wheels.