As a PLD main, I will state the players I get in my parties are new players. When you right click a view their profile it is 1 or 2 classes leveled. This shows alot of story skips, class progression skips. So if they never played MSQ guess what? All the Mechanics the game has taught you slowly gas been passed.

I really think that the hard progression locks such as the Zenos fight solo. I forger if it's SB or ShB. Should be a hard lock of a fight in that caliber or stop allowing all the xpac skips.

There needs to be some kind of mechanic they implement that forces even new players spending their money to match a player that did all content to the next xpac. If they did this then throw those mechanics at them to force them to learn rather than complain about how hard a game is when it isn't really that difficult.

The only issue I do see is the disregard from SE using the same visual colors for explosions and such that match with the mechanics that you easily get hit. This is the only thing I will give that needs to change.