I actually was wondering about it. It's usually only awful during expansion launches as bad parties DDOS on top of the influx of players. But I saw a theory that it may not be FFXIV but another service hosted at the same facility that is being targeted, so I don't know.

Either way, how much of it can SE do to alleviate it? Wouldn't it be more a problem of the company hosting FFXIV NA servers? If so, then SE may need to move us all again to another host by 8.0.