It's the games problem for enabling bad, then bad goes into PFs and causes disband because nobody can say anything about how bad they are so its easiest to relist the pug.

This is a fundamental design problem imo. They have stripped away difficulty in msq for the sake of story completion, and then keep adding solo friendly systems. At what point is square enix going to choose? Is this an MMO or a single player game? Cause to me it feels like 50% of the playerbase plays the game like it's a single player game (not trying, bad in group content) and the other half plays it like it's WoW back in 2010, trying hard for your teammates. Square enix would do well not to try to please everybody, because they cant. They need to prioritise, because let's be real, it isnt msq players who stop playing for 6-12 months at a time who are keeping them afloat. It's the daily players. Yknow, the ones playing an MMORPG.

In my opinion, after a certain point, being bad in group content is essentially griefing and is really REALLY rude. On my first run though the game, I checked guides for a lot of stuff before I went in. Why? Well aside from getting flamed when I told people I watched a guide, I wanted to know what was going to happen as tank so I could prepare accordingly. Of course, in hindsight outside of maybe 1 or 2 fights (like eden birds/shadow dog) it really wasnt needed. But 99.9% of those runs went way smoother because I bothered to look it up so I couldnt care less.

I'm not saying we need elitism and RaiderIo and people to have BiS for content. I'm asking for people to DO THEIR ROTATION. I was in a trial lately, ex difficulty equivalent, and a paladin used requiescat ONCE. Yknow, that second half of the paladin rotation? This player probably doesnt even know what they're doing wrong and that content REALLY isnt the place to have someone explain in what order to press your buttons in, so I decided to avoid the ToS and not mention anything. This Is just one example of what I'd consider casual griefing. I'm not claiming to be worlds best player, but at least try to put some effort in.