I agree with others that the fight looks fun and the fight design looks great but as you said, it's not for the casual to mid-core group of players. The fight is mostly for savage and ultimate raiders and let's be honest... this group of players is not in need of content right now. As someone who is kinda in this group, the last thing I want is another hard fight to learn on top of savage clears and learning an ultimate. Since the release of DT, we got a few duns, 3 EXs, savage, ultimate, and an AR. The only meaningful content for players who aren't raiders is the EXs(honestly I don't know if EX is for this group...I just included bc I find EX pretty mid-core myself), and AR. Meanwhile, the Raiders have gotten a savage tier, a new ultimate, and now this fight.

As someone who is kinda on break from raiding, I honestly have nothing to do when playing FF14. Nothing to work towards other than EX mounts but that grind is SO boring...(90 clears of EX2, 60 clears of EX1, and 10 clears of EX3...still haven't seen a mount drop btw...). I would love something more led back and chill content that was also fun to play right now. Something to keep me playing the game. That is why I LOVE eurake, I always had something to do when eurake was new. The grind for relics is what kept me playing this game in between raid nights. Now I only log in to do EXs or when I was in a static Raid night.

Also, I agree that the reward system for CAR sucks esp in the long run. The longer the raid is out, the fewer first-time clears you will have to take advantage of. Meaning to get things like the hairstyle or mounts, you looking at farming the fight over 50 times. I don't know about anyone else but I think looking for 24 ppl for the same fight mouths after it came 50 times will be harder than the fight lol. I don't see this content having a long life, it will die pretty quickly just like Crit, and Crit duns only requires 4 ppl...