The Formula won't change

[Arlythe]

We have those already with criterion.
Even more savage is exactly not what this game needs.
We already have a good amount of challenging content for high end players in the form of savage, ultimate, chaotic in the future, Duels (yes some of them are really hard). Almost every mode has a savage version nowadays.
We need more things on moderate difficulty at most like CLL or Bozja critical engagements.

We have a lot of savage content, true, but criterion dungeons are really not the answer for people who want to do various amount of hard content, but can't find a large enough static or who just want to play with a smaller group of friends or FC mates.
That's kinda like telling a viera player to be happy about all those nice hats in the game.
And now the devs put in more variety in even larger groups with the chaotic stuff, which is a step in the wrong direction tbh.
That doesn't have to mean we can't have more bozja-esque content.

We have more content than we've ever had. We didn't used to have 2 Ultimates, 3 Variant and 3 Criterion Dungeons, Field Operations, Deep Dungeons, Chaos Raids and misc content like Ishgard Restoration/Island Sanctuary/Cosmisc Exploration in ARR. Their older content like FATEs and hunts didn't used to be as rewarding but now have mount grinds. These things were added to the formula over time, including in recent expansions, but people want to pretend it doesn't exist and say the game is in maintenance mode.

That's what I usually like to say.
Just because there's not enough content that you deem playworthy, doesn't mean there's no content.

Well if it has 3 more expansions left to live, it's 6 to 7 more years, I'd say that's fine by me.

They already said they set up the story for the next 10 years and Yoshida seems confident enough that he can keep working on it until retiring.
Considering how long a lot of japanese people who work in artistic jobs keep on working past their retirement age, I'd say we'll be able to keep playing for quite some time.