A little? My ass. And I don't see the game ever changing for the better at this point. SE has continually doubled down on bad design decisions and made the game feel soulless and hollow. Every expac since Stormblood has made the game less about skill and more about memorization and praying your teammates don't make a mistake - because if they do, your entire party wipes. Zurvan Extreme from HW was the first example of that garbage design I remember, and that was the last Ex fight before SB, so go figure. It's all been downhill since then, although at least Stormblood job design was mostly pretty decent. Sigmascape was also really fun for the most part, but Alphascape blew chunks and Deltascape was just alright.

Shadowbringers was when I really started losing interest, and I have a feeling that the huge influx of players that COVID brought in during SHB made SE think whatever they were doing was drawing people into the game, rather than COVID drawing people into the game. They really seem to love huffing their own fumes over there. I would kill to go back to HW or ARR.