Part 6:
Now to get back to the topic of Hunts and Fates.
We only get new A and S rank Hunts once per expansion and usually at x.2 they are already so weak that they get insanely boring. Why cant we drop new ones during an expansion? Doesn't have to be at every patch but like 7.2 and 7.4 would be good times. Especially if we consider having more and smaller maps again they would have chances to fill those with high difficulty as they could drop some new maps for when the story needs em in later patches. The same with the big Special fates. We only get 2 per expansion and tons of people already clear em during x.0
Just do something with em.
Hunts are also weird longtime content cause I honestly believe the devs way overshot here. Hunting 2000 S-Ranks just to get a mount takes way to long. Even 500 would be many. People can easily miss em. Even more so if they don't use Hunting Discords. The 3000 A ranks are not even the problem cause we have way more A ranks than we have S ranks. The curve just doesn't make sense. If you truly want this some people spend at least half a year only scouring Hunting Discords just so they don't miss any S ranks. That is also just bad game design.... The Bi-colored gemstone hunts where you need over 3000 fates to get black wings or the Sugar glider mount also fall into this. That is not a grind thats just mindless repetition. Thus not many people even attempt to do it.
And I think that is sad.

Another topic would be Seasonal Events.
I fully get and understand that the developers intend for them to be accessible for all players.
But we use the same Lay-outs, Fireworks and snow animations in Limsa/Gridania and Uldah for years.... The towns also dont change anymore as most of the story happens in other places now.
We are tired of those. Dont the other towns have their own celebrations? Why cant they get fancy stuff? Why cant we do some events for everyone and extra stuff for long time players?
I also think the writing on these has suffered a lot... 2 or 3 years ago I thought an Intern wrote the story... It might have also been AI. It was that bad. Please be creative again. Make some new fests. Let other places celebrate things as well. For example an in game fest in Shadowbringers area celebrating the night would be dope. They dont have to mimic real life Celebrations and they don't have to be yearly. But please do something for em and with them. All seasonal event rewards end up in cash-shop later for cheap anyway so even if new players miss em they can get the stuff later.