Difficulty of normal content.

[Grandvichy]

I struggle to believe that struggling to beat a RAID boss, and having to do Valigarmanda 4 times warrant the game director and content designer to put limits on their creativity and put a stop on the game's advancement/evolution in general.

You should ask yourself if you are unable or unwilling to grow with the content. I believe that you are physically and mentally unable to comprehend the concept of being shown mechs, then learn them. There are issues there, and it is not the game design.

You don't enjoy struggling in fights, you don't like when orange circles and rectangles now come in different shapes and sizes, you don't like the game. It is frankly insane to ask for content to be clearable first try on release date, despite having to wait half a year for it (Or 2+ years for people that only do MSQ).

It's okay to not do optional content and it's okay to stop playing the game when you don't enjoy it, nobody is forcing you to do anything. In fact, you, as well as everybody in the community will be much happier if as many of you that exist would stop playing FFXIV.

Dying in raids and trials is not the end of the world, nobody will search up that info in your job applications or rat you out in your eulogy.
And so continues the cycle. You've made up your mind, there are 88 pages of replies beating a dead horse.