What was they thinking when they did variant dungeons and criterion

[Alleo]

It's why as much as I agree with Yoshida and think people rushed Island Sanctuary and similar content that wasn't meant to be rushed, I also have to point out that the devs didn't have the foresight to prepare for the way the community handled it. They didn't prepare for it to have longevity, they went through it relying on good player behaviour. Meaning that while I see the people who rushed it as not having read the room, I realize I shouldn't use what the devs said as an answer to those people because the devs' design is flawed.

I dont have the reddit link to the interview anymore but I remember that Yoshida recently said that most people do Island Sancturay in a casual slow way. He said that they just like to pet their animals, and plant some crops.

So what should the devs have done then to keep the other part of the playerbase that did rush/hardcore play it to stop doing that? More gates? A much bigger grind? And when does the solution become tedious for those of the players that do enjoy it slowly?

The problem in it as I see it , is that yoshi will make even more content made for this solo play and by that being more easy.take the dungeons (normal ones) we got in 6.x, some if the more easy ever. Same go for trials and raids.its to the point less people do that way faster that in the past.

What is easy really depends on the view of each player. Someone that does Ultimate will probably find a lot of things very easy in this game. Same for those who have statics and do content with them.

In the end the devs have the statistics. If these show that more people enjoy solo play than it would be a financial bad descision not to focus on that group. That does not mean that others cant have their cake either. People that want a challenge still can do extremes, savage and Ultimate. Now we have Criterion too which according to some comments here and on reddit can be quite hard.

It just makes no sense to make everything harder when the main target audience does not want it.