Every dungeon should be a Variant Dungeon

[Eorzean_username]

Considering a run of a Variant is similar in lenght to a "Normal" dungeon, I really doubt this can be done. Variants sound like 3x the work than a regular dungeon. What you ask is impossible.

Here we go again with another variant (ha) of the argument, "Stop trying to hold the development team to any kind of standards or imagining improvements in how they direct their effort or workflow or budget or hiring practices, it's just NOT POSSIBLE".

I know I'm being abrasive and unhelpful right now, but honestly — "Three times more work than a regular dungeon" ?

So "Three times more work than a formulaic completely-linear hallway with a fixed pattern of 'Trash-Trash-Boss/Trash-Trash-Boss/Trash-Trash-Boss/END' " ?

"Three times" that??

That's the cutoff for something being too much work for XIV's development team??

That is objectively(?) depressing, and I think shows how well players here have been conditioned into expecting nothing, and being pleasantly-surprised if they get anything at all.