I've got 2,500 hours in FF14 and apparently never unlocked hunts.

I've come to find out that I don't have access to hunts in Dawntrail. The only way to resolve this is to go all the way back to ARR and Gridania, spamming Squadron dailies until I reach level 40 missions to unlock my next rank of First Serpent Lieutenant. Squadron dailies are very old and not fun design- they were archaic in 2013, let alone 11 years later in 2024.

I also thought I was at max Serpent rank all these years because it says "You have reached the maximum allowable rank." This is kind of poor English as it doesn't accurately describe the situation.

I don't think it makes sense to force someone to spend week/s doing 11 year old ARR squadron dailies just to unlock hunts so they can access current content. We're already gated behind MSQ- doing so for hunts seems like a huge oversight.