they had a chance to save XIV if they had doubled down on banning mods

mods killed raiding
mods killed rp
mods even killed transmog, because people just install mods to get the look they want instead of collecting good looking gear

nobody playing the game has any idea what the person they are talking to or interacting with is seeing, because they might be running mods to make your character nude or have huge tits, or whatever

the type of people playing this game before the modpocalypse really got into full swing liked the idea of what mods could do for the game, gpose seemed need at first...until you started getting stalked by somebody who was posing your character being fucked by dogs and distributing the images, and there is nothing you can do

somebody gposes your male character sucking cock? nothing you can do
somebody puts your lala in a diaper and pacifier? hilarious, but nothing you can do about it