It's funny how many people insist that the simplification and homogenisation was absolutely necessary for people to be able to focus on harder content.

Acting like no one ever cleared a savage in Heavensward or Stormblood.

The reduction in difficulty in the name of accessibility from Shadowbringers onwards was absolutely unnecessary, people managed to clear content just fine back then and a lot of the clunk from Heavensward was removed in Stormblood, there was zero reason to go further with it.