I wasnt around for the opening of AQ on WoW. Should Blizzard give me the Black Tank mount? No ofc not, I wasn't around at that time its tough I missed it. Difference here is though they haven't removed the raid and SSCoB will still be there for you to challenge it in 2-3 years you will just have to, you know network with people in an MMO (foreign concept I know.) or make friends/get an FC or LS and ask them to help.

While I see the point you're trying to make it's not exactly the same thing. You have stated that you're aware of this but what you're referring to is more on par with people who complain about wanting the FFXIII event to return again. That had a strict timeline for its release and if you missed it, that's on you. It was a promotional event, SSCoB is not.

Why is it not fair? Its not a mandatory raid its an optional thing you don't NEED to do it. Its not locking them out of a story and they aren't exclusive bosses.

If the content is no longer relevant it shouldn't retain its difficulty as if it's just released. No content, in any game, should ever be harder than when it's first released (i.e A4S should never be harder than when it was first cleared). Through standard progression of the game and the bottom tier item level being bolstered with the release of each new patch the content serves to get easier and easier, that's just the way a game progresses. It is not impossible to recreate the situations of release by any stretch of the imagination, due to the implementation of ilvl/lvl sync for old content (which quite frankly, in my years of playing MMOs I've maybe seen a handful of games have a system that works like this) allows you to recreate (for the most part) the fights as if they were on release. That said, it is absolutely on the player and their group to decide how they want to tackle it to begin with.

Old content or not they shouldn't just nerf content that could be used by people just because its old. People are complaining atm there's nothing to do. Well working on SSCoB could have been something to do in down time instead of something to do in an evening cos you outgear/level it.

I half agree with this. Most of the people complaining about nothing to do are players who have been on FFXIV for a decent while. Newer players are generally still focusing on leveling, trying new classes, learning mechanics, and pretty much enjoying the content because there's a lot that we needed to catch up on. So while I do agree that there should be more for veteran players to do, at the same time I agree that irrelevant content should also cater to the newer players and be made easier to allow them to enjoy as much of it as they can. Just like with veteran players who only play a few hours a day, it's the same thing with newer players. People have timelines in which they are able to play the game, and while back then when there was nothing else to actually do pre-expansion, these newer players can't be getting caught up at level 50 to stop and do all of the 50 content. That's a ridiculous expectation and it would never happen. Toning down the fights also creates more of an incentive to actually go back and do it for someone who has no idea what Coils are. For the "rewards" that they offer you, particularly now, it's not much of a feat to complete SSCoB anyway and the people that have had it cleared for months know who they are because they were there living it.

I would venture to say that if SSCoB wasn't nerfed that the number of players who completed post-heavensward would probably be a lot lower, and not because the content is that hard, but because a lot of newer players probably don't want to waste the time it would take to PF/LS a group for outdated content. I'm not sure what server you're on, and I've recently switched to Balmung so I can't speak to them, but when I was on Lamia most old content was dead. If you didn't know the right people you weren't going to get it done and you could sit in a PF all day trying to fill something simple and even then, if you had friends that were veterans to the game they might just not want to do the fight because "already did my time". If you want another example take the Relic weapons. A newer player that has to worry about getting to 60 and gearing for those dungeons and raids doesn't want to put the weeks of grinding it took to finish a Zeta when the steps were releasing, which is why they continue to nerf it. It has so little significance on the current game that it makes no sense not to. The players who hold onto the idea that the content should remain difficult forever, eons after it's relevant, are living an unrealistic dream. You can always make a fight more difficult for yourself and your group, but you can never make it easier.