FF 14 has the worst dungeons

[Absurdity]

Regardless, people will always streamline and find the easiest, fastest, and least friction path. This applies to every single game, even those that offer ample variation and complexity.

That's why every single game under the sun has a guide on how to achieve the best, the fastest X. (The best build, the fastest gold, the fastest levels, the best specs, the best gear.. etc)

Of course people are going to optimize everything, there is fun in the process and seeing the results work out.

The problem is when the game gets designed in such a way that the optimized way is the baseline, it not only destroys it for the people who aren't trying to optimize but also for those that do.