The game is very easy

[ssunny2008]

Players who want to learn will learn and players who don't simply wont.

Sure, but that´s not everything.

FF14 still don´t force the player to grow. Just lately we carried a super-casual through the 2nd EX and she never played any harder content before. She went in as heal, did like zero DPS, but hey... she did what have been told, played the mechanics and healed. We managed to clear it pretty fast. In the end it was even the truth that we said "You did good.", because we know on which skill-level she normally interacts. She never made any efforts to get better, we just have been like "common, it´s cool" and she definately had her fun and came a day later again with us.

And instead that the game is taking the players at their hand somehow, it´s just lying into their face. For example someone fckd up completely, but gets that rare mount in the end. Or you fckd up your MSQ, so you´re getting rewarded with an "easy" button. Of course, why should someone pick the difficult and time-wasting option of a fight you´ve already seen 90% of again, when you can go trough in easy mode and half the needed time?
Then the players go out of all the content like "Oh i did so good." / "Yes i´ve managed to finish it!" / "Look at my cool new mount!". No, they didn´t good, they didn´t deserve it.

You don´t need a will to get better, when the game increases the difficulty step by step, dungeon by dungeon. You would automatically get better by playing. But no, FF14 keeps babysitting and rewards bad plays with and "easier pls" button or pets / mounts behind some RNG. And once you want to try savage, the entrance is blocked by a large gap. Normal-raids aren´t a help in any way. Even EX content isn´t that big of a deal next to the DPS check. The most content can be finished by using autoattacks only and this is a serious issue.