Tank mitigation should be balanced to dungeons

[Shurrikhan]

I will hope for the best for the other tanks, surely there’s more common ground to find than just tearing down a good job because it’s good.

Here I'm sitting on a job that used to be my tank main but now bores the hell out of most of its veterans because a subset of its players couldn't be bothered to manage use of their gauge, costing us that part of complexity in mid-Stormblood and then again in Shadowbringers, and then they couldn't be bothered to bank resources for Nascent Flash, costing us even that and making our on-demand feel isolated, detached, and generally dull af.

Those changes haven't "elevated" WAR's kit. They've increasingly diminished it.

They've increasingly replaced engagement with failure-proofed "hurr-de-durr", and have then been taking every other kit down that same path of being shallowed out and/or brain-sanded.

And that's what you're calling "Man mode", while insisting everyone else should just "get on our [brain-smoothed] level"?

No. It's dogshit. And not everyone wants to have to smell it, let alone smell like it.