Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
To be fair, that's also because NA and JP approach instanced content totally differently. JP uses party finder/static groups to learn fights, then random queues when they already know them. NA sees the random queue and likes the idea of facing fights blind with a group of fellow blind players so the experience is "fresher". The Japanese playerbase doesn't get the mindset of blind random queueing.
I'm not sure if it was changed in the re-vamp, but at least the ARR-era quests that direct you to the harder versions of trials used to (and maybe still do) explicitly say to complete them using Duty Finder in their quest description. I know for me back in the day, that made me first not even think about PF (as a sprout I wasn't even familiar with how it worked), and then when someone mentioned it existed, it made me question if I'd still get quest credit doing it that way since the quest itself said to specifically use DF. If the description is still like that today, I wonder if it would help reduce instances of DF extremes if the descriptions either didn't specify DF or specifically said "using Duty Finder or Party Finder" to give newer players the reminder/knowledge that PF exists.