i get yall are sick of the same content heap or recycled content, but honestly, it's better than some of the alternatives.

as i see it right now FFXIV has three problem areas for player use.

1. Inventory size and i don't just mean consumables and such, that's not really a big issue just using the 2 retainers you have even if you craft assuming you don't hoard junk you don't actually need or will never use (im looking at you mr 7 retainers full of outdated materia)

but it's the weapon armoury/jobstone inventory thats piling up, while the jobstone one isn't really a big deal right this second, if they keep adding more classes it will be a major issue pretty soon.

what happens when one of these inventories are full? you can't swap classes without having a gear set for them saved (granted you should have gear sets made anyways for ease of swapping classes)

2. Stat Scaling - they just did an item squish/stat squish and here we are in DT bloated out just as much if not more than we used to be before the stat squish.

what even was the point of the stat squish if they were just going to juice us up again to then need to do it a second time????

it's just bad game design, why rebalance your game, to then need to re-balance it again, it wastes development time that could be spent you know, making content? fixing bugs? revamping systems?

3. Progression, not just gear, but also levels and this also ties back in with how the game scales.

if these areas aren't handled properly by next expansion, we might be looking at a level squish later down the road, which by the way since FFXIV is 100% story driven, depending on what level they set us back to would also bork a LOT of the MSQ quests.

and levels matter simply because they also tack on stats the difference between a level 47 and a level 100 is roughly 90-300 stat points in every single category.

but FFXIV is in a precarious state right now on a lot of angles and depending on how the next few patches are handled and how they execute the next expansion, there won't really be any turning back without 10x the amount of work, if they were to just work on fixing it now.