The difficulty of normal content is great as is. Do not revert them.

[TDawnstar]

We're still making choices like that. I'm doing better on my summoner since I adjusted my spell speed for optimal alignment of my cooldowns.
They're less significant than many other mmo, but also they're not nearly as insignificant as you think ?

It's a joke compared to what it could be. Stats were simplified into oblivion since ARR times, and secondary stats are unbalanced as well as crit overpowers everything 95% of the time.
And as a healer main... mana is pretty much irrelevant unless you die, and piety may as well not be there.

Concerning talent trees, there was this really good MMO that really emphasized talent trees like... ~10-15 years ago ?
It was called Rift. Man I loved that game, you could match 3 talent trees out of a selection of trees that were available to your class.

It doesn't have necessary to be trees per se. A very good recent implementation of character power was Lost Ark, where you have stuff like talent points, tripods etc. all making your character a lot more powerful before gear even kicks in.
Unfortunately, its developers decided to shoot themselves in the foot XD

I haven't seen a single MMO like this do as well as FFXIV does ? Not even wow at this point. Though if you want that, I think Wow or GW2 can fit that need pretty neatly.

Well, let's put it this way: even in the peak low that was Shadowlands, WoW was probably having more subscriptions than FF does. Now, that doesn't mean that we need FFXIV to copy WoW (far from it), but putting FFXIV on top is very optimistic to say the least.

Or maybe Normal Raids via duty finder is that, and you just need to give a moment for the expansion to land, for people to learn and adapt to it, for gear to be released (doesn't matter if you don't do savage, people around you will start to do the content and lift you up with them) and other stuff like that to happen.

I would be simply happy if they unscrewed the netcode and made it as reactive as WoW or GW2. There is some stuff you should be able to avoid with twitch reflexes, and currently the netcode is preventing that.
Also, having a "foll" button like in GW2 would help a lot, I feel.