I’ll start by saying that any rude comments are unwarranted regardless of reasoning. That being said, yes making solo content does affect people who aren’t solo players. Solo comp, for example, would make matchmaking extraordinarily longer where even on playstation, it already can take 5-10 minutes to find a match during low hours. As for pve, well you’re in a bit of a situation there too. If you want purely solo content, content you can only go in alone, the very nature of a game like this would tell you that they prioritized that content over other team based content they could have added or improved. And if you’re going for content that is just reasonable to solo but you can still go into with a group, then the core issue is players that run with their friends will feel like they’re being cheated out of engaging content. You could circumvent this by adding some penalty or increase in difficulty based on the amount of people you bring with you into the activity, but outside of that people are gonna care. Edited to add that I realize that you offered that you don’t need to sacrifice quality for making a better solo environment, and frankly I don’t think that’s completely accurate. One of your mentions in shattered throne, for example, is certainly solo-able, but the issue is it’s not very solo-able for casual players, which is what a lot of the solo community is comprised of. You can speak for yourself saying that you can solo those kinds of activities just fine, but I have plenty of friends that like to run by themselves, and at the end of the day, most of them’ll ask me or one of my friends for help after a few hours of trying