Forgive my ignorance but isn’t the significant contribution to the number loss players that are not maxed?

Isn’t the loss rate for maxed players something like 3%?

Seems like to me that it’s more the casual player who isn’t as invested is going to play other games like Zelda, ff16, Diablo, armored core when it comes out and continue xiv at their own pace.

Is this just a cope?