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

[Jinglypockets]

That's a fact
However, sometimes I do wonder whether they actually drew any lessons from playing it

From what I understand, 1.0 played more like Everquest.

Which, having played a lot of Everquest when it was new: Gross.

[jdtuggey]

Which, having played a lot of Everquest when it was new: Gross.

I played during shadows of luclin. It was amazing at the time, but by modern standards lol... oof.

Oh, and WoW's responsiveness, which, thanks to the busted engine, I unfortunately don't see FFXIV ever being able to replicate even if they tried.

I don't think it's possible to even walk that back at this point. We'd need an entirely new game. I don't know when they'll go like "Okay, we've done enough with FFXIV, maybe time to move on".
11-14... maybe 17 will be a mmo ? (͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖)
Games have changed engines before, but all of the content is designed around how poorly the game/servers work together in this particular case.
And there's a lot of it. People are used to the silly things this causes at this point too, and losing these habits would probably create friction, so there's barriers to even trying.

[Jaxtaro]

From what I understand, 1.0 played more like Everquest.

Which, having played a lot of Everquest when it was new: Gross.

You haven't lived until you experienced the joys of the phrase "TRAIN TO ZONE".

[Jinglypockets]

You haven't lived until you experienced the joys of the phrase "TRAIN TO ZONE".

You haven't lived until you've experienced the joys of causing that train.

[Jaxtaro]

You haven't lived until you've experienced the joys of causing that train.

The old school Unrest, Blackburrow, and Paw trains, Mistmoore and Guk trains, they were legendary.

Never could figure out why people in Oasis would train spectres to the docks though