Whats going on over there?

[Issaella]

Just because criterion dungeons are competitive high-end dungeons doesn't mean they're copy & paste from WoW's mythic + dungeons based on what they told us today.
In fact, even if it turned out to be copy & paste mythic+, you'd have to realize it's one of few contents (The others raiding and PvP) that has and is carrying WoW right now through the mess of expansions which speaks a lot about the feature itself

It's not. Blizz going all in on M+ was the reason I quit WoW and came here 3+ years ago. They have gone even further "all in" on M+ as the main progression route since then and driven off most of their playerbase as a result. M+ in WoW is the most miserable experience imaginable to a lot of people - gatekeeping entry by gear/io score, repeat the same 5 dungeons over and over and over and over, torturous and unfun modifiers regularly, poor rewards, massive toxicity due to the gatekeeping and poor rewards...

It. Is. Awful.

I really hope that the new Criterion dungeons will do things differently, because if it turns into the FF14 version of M+ I'm goings to be unbelievably disappointed.

EDIT - Take the misery/despair that is doing current tier Sav in FF14 exclusively through the PF and increase it by an order of magnitude to get an idea of the horror that is M+ in WoW. I am not exaggerating about this. At all.