Since the developers actually seem to care about our experiences during this period I wanna talk about the absolute worst thing I've experienced with the log ins the way they are. Twice now, I have waited hours to log in to the game. I'm fine with this. The game is typically worth the wait. I love this game and the community. (For real, ya'll have been great) I had to take a week off to repair my pc. I get back to the game. Play through the start of Endwalker, get to my first dungeon, assemble a group of players from my free company. We heroically battle our way through the first instance of the expansion. We have the final encounter down to 15% Health aaaaand I disconnect. I get kicked out.
The game logs out my character from the encounter, the dungeon and the server and now I am looking at a several hour long relog to finish a fight. Which would waste that same amount of time of my friends assuming it would even let me back in the dungeon. But no. I'm just gunna go sleep it off. But this game could really use a way to remember a players space if they get disconnected. "A hold my seat while I use the Rest Room" function. Cause getting disconnected in a dungeon you waited forever to run and having to wait hours to retry it is just a plain bad experience. Give us like a 5 minute grace period please. Its so depressing.