Do you know why the average pf player is so bad?

[Nadda]

A big number of these issues stems from the changes brought by later expansions. The potency creep is real, even basic hits from players melt things compared to ARR days and the amount of stats your character gets fairly quickly and easily makes even Healers able to tank some things for a while.

As a healer who has been playing the game for a long while I'd have to agree. Old content doesn't hit as hard anymore and we hit harder.

Ask for the big jump in difficulty. It wouldn't be so big if we just gave that normal content a number boost. Nothing crazy we need to make this curry mild instead of weak. EX/Unreal is Hot, Savage is spicy and Ultimates are REALLY SPICY.

In the same way that our community is forgiving of mistakes, the game has also become too accommodating of mistakes to the point we've atrophied newer players' brains like an over-protected child.
And if the game doesn't give way to teaching and nurturing our player base, our community in response is gonna become more toxic over time as the divide becomes larger between skilled and unskilled players and patience/kindness evaporates.

And I don't want to see that happen but you can see it here in our own speech including mine that kinda simmering of the burden.
The Why only at higher levels of content do I now need to explain cure 3 creates an aoe based on the target and it doesn't have to be the whitemage as the epicenter. To a fellow 90 Whitemage.