What was they thinking when they did variant dungeons and criterion

[magitekLuna]

This might come as a shock, but content doesn't disappear when it no longer has rewards for you to gain. It's still available to other players for the first time, it's still possible for other content to require it (such as relic).

The silliest thing is to expect every piece of content in the game to somehow be evergreen. I don't know if I would take people wanting this content to last longer to be taken as a compliment that what was added was a ton of fun or the players wanting to stretch it out are so mmo frazzled by rewards they no longer know how to enjoy themselves without a carrot.

There's a whole game out there. Enjoy the buffet rather than focus exclusively on the single piece of a new type of content that was just added.

Ok as some one that wanted to do older raids on a new character I play now it was hell. Each thing take over 30 min to get in to it at all. Things like old raids/trials. Deep dungeons are not even possible to find a party for. So as long as it's there the people you need for it are not.and turn ff14 in to a solo game won't help it.