I'm not so concerned about easy mode. Quite frankly, I realize that I kind of like a bit of easy mode sometimes. I don't have the time to be masochistic in an MMORPG anymore. I'm more concerned about the way that they turned on easy mode in FFXI which has completely disregarded any concept of game balance. The new super boss, Shinryu, can be defeated solo easily and there's no concept of usefulness for a number of jobs (DNC is inferior in most ways to NIN; PLD is fundamentally borked; RNG, DRK, SAM (never thought I'd say that), and DRG are useless next to WAR and MNK) has fallen to nothing.