What does FFXIV lack?

[GraceHorizon]

1. Mid-difficulty content. Something between story dungeons and EX. Normal raids are pretty good but we only get four of them every eight months, and their rewards aren’t enough to get by on from only doing that content.

2. Mutually supporting types of content. Occult Crescent should be the best way to get relics, which you then take and use outside OC; stuff from outside OC should help you do OC better. Equipment and currency rewards should be structured to encourage you to do a little of everything, with synergy between all the different types of content.

3. Writers with the courage to write something tragic and make the story deal with the consequences. After we killed Sphene in 7.0 (which we had to do!), we should have had to deal with some negative consequences from it in 7.x as well as mourning someone who could have been our friend if not for her duty. Instead we got a replacement goldfish in 7.2, and all the sadness taken out of Living Memory in 7.3 too.

[hydralus]

1. Mid-difficulty content. Something between story dungeons and EX.

EX are mid-difficulty content. What you're asking for is just casual content.

[Valence]

EX are mid-difficulty content. What you're asking for is just casual content.

They spelled it as clear as crystal: "something between story dungeons and EX".

It doesn't matter whether it qualifies within casual content or not for you, it's beyond the point.

[hydralus]

They spelled it as clear as crystal: "something between story dungeons and EX".

It doesn't matter whether it qualifies within casual content or not for you, it's beyond the point.

You're correct I used the wrong word.
EX is already mid-difficulty content, what they're asking for is just more low-difficulty content.

[Shurrikhan]

You're correct I used the wrong word.
EX is already mid-difficulty content, what they're asking for is just more low-difficulty content.

Then they're asking for more (to you) "low-difficulty" content that's not as low-difficulty as the existing 'low-difficulty' content. So what?

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For my part, though it's far from all or even the most important: repeatable 20-to-35-minute instanced and DF-able content somewhere between Savage and Extremes in difficulty but less dependent on memorization, e.g., keyless "~M+" but ideally where players choose the challenges they want to add.

Or, job distinction and alt-friendliness (in terms of both characters, and more importantly if job distinction were allowed, jobs). Note here that fights would have to be redesigned to actually leverage those distinctions without just forcing X job for Y fight each time.

[hydralus]

Then they're asking for more (to you) "low-difficulty" content that's not as low-difficulty as the existing 'low-difficulty' content. So what?

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For my part, though it's far from all or even the most important: in a nutshell, keyless "~M+" where players choose the challenges they want to add.

Or, job distinction and alt-friendliness (in terms of both characters, and more importantly if job distinction were allowed, jobs). Note here that fights would have to be redesigned to actually leverage those distinctions without just forcing X job for Y fight each time.

If we're going down the "According to you" argument: Considering we have people on the forum complaining dungeons are too hard perhaps it already exists and dungeons are now mid-difficulty.
Jokes aside I don't even agree with the original statement that difficulty between Story dungeons and EX doesn't exist because: normal raids, Floors 61+ of Pilgrims, Occult crescent CEs (yeah people can be carried through them but that's due to swarm size not mechanical difficulty) are already there. Would it be nice to have more? Sure. More is always good, but saying it doesn't exist is just wrong.

[Shurrikhan]

If we're going down the "According to you" argument: Considering we have people on the forum complaining dungeons are too hard perhaps it already exists and dungeons are now mid-difficulty.
Jokes aside I don't even agree with the original statement that difficulty between Story dungeons and EX doesn't exist because: normal raids, Floors 61+ of Pilgrims, Occult crescent CEs (yeah people can be carried through them but that's due to swarm size not mechanical difficulty) are already there. Would it be nice to have more? Sure. More is always good, but saying it doesn't exist is just wrong.

A lack is to not have enough, not necessary to have nothing. "There is no food." =/= "There is a lack of food." And look at what was said in the exact section you take issue with:

Normal raids are pretty good but...

...the rewards aren't enough...

Normal Raids were already mentioned, and given that Pilgrim lacks rewards and CEs aren't even instances while all other examples were and OC was mentioned separately just below...

Like, why bother with the nitpick, especially when, as you said, "more is always good" and lacking / having a lack of something does not necessitate that there is outright none anyways, only not enough (which will be, in a video game, inherently subjective)???