I agree with op

For the first time in years I let my sub drop, the game is to aimed at bringing in players who won't stick around, just finish the story and bounce, there's more than a dozen other normal final fantasy games so why force this one to be like those, the best part of the game is playing with others, you don't know if you'll group with players who know their s**t and cruise through something or a group that's in low level gear and spamming one attack, single pulling enemies, that's the fun of it

If you don't like mmorpgs then it's not the game for you, I suck at CoD but I'm not mad at it begging for it to change or cater to me.

Honestly why are you paying a subscription fee to play by yourself? Feels like a slap in the face to all of the players that have let this game get this big, I've watched as less and less content comes, blue mages I ignored, but this last news just snatched the wind from my sails, when you remember that these devs are constantly harping how theyre short on manpower you know that the ones who are waiting for true content will be screwed.

I don't mind dropping the game, endwalker was a phenomenal end to the story for me.