Multi-group content is not the way.

Count me in with the anti-multi-team group, for a few reasons that have already been said. I don't particularly enjoy invasions, Hamidon raids, or mothership raids. I like smaller groups. My ideal team size is 4-5 people: Enough to get things done, small enough that every player has their own niche that they can dramatically impact. Even teams of 8 can start to feel same-y, where every fight goes similarly because there are just so many attacks flying out. The more you add, the less I enjoy it: my damage becomes one source of it among a dozen others and my buffs fall on people that are already defense-capped four times over from other sources. Are there exceptions? Yeah, sure. I've experienced them. But as a rule of thumb, it's a pretty good one. Is this part solved partially by situations that encourage the team to split up? Yes. Can I partially increase my contribution with leadership and good playing? Yeah. But neither of these are full cures.

With the graphics powers get in this game, huge fights just look horrible to me, as everything turns into a smear of pink fire blue energy rain rain purple rain fire-rain imps vines fire explosion ice. Instead of being able to grit my teeth and turn things around personally if somebody's not pulling their weight, I have to count on the competence of a dozen people I don't necessarily know, even if I do know how to do things well enough to give instructions. Can this be a problem in teams as they are? Yeah. But if there are already problems, adding more people exacerbates it most of the time.

I encourage you to read this as 'this type of content does not align well with my personal preferences, and am offering my feedback' rather than 'this content is bad and the devs and people who enjoy it should feel bad.'

Every time I read one of these threads I feel like making some popcorn and munching away while the sparks fly. It seems like everyone would benefit from taking a step away and doing something else for a little while, especially people like Friggin Taser, who seem to be on some sort of crusade against those with differing opinions.

And on that note: I dislike the new trials, I think they're a horrible new direction and it's a pain in the *** to go from incredibly survivable Mastermind to road-kill almost faster than it takes for my Assault Bot to recharge. But I'm going to do them anyway because I want my freaking ACU, damn it.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Task_Forces

Small-Team content and Task Forces are 2 different things.

Trials and Task Forces are also 2 different things.

Please stop trying to make them all equal.

Now, you can do some task forces with small teams, and you can do some trials with task force level teams, but they aren't all the same beast. Its like the different between a house cat, a puma, and a lion. They all may be considered 'Cats' but they are by far totally different animals.

If you don't like the iTrails, there's no need to do them. Just generate lots of Shards on 8 man teams that mow through content and convert them. Part of the beauty of I20 is you get to do the content you like and still make Incarnate progress.

WARNING: I bold names.

I am disappointed also Moo. It is easy to say "this isn't for you go do something else". And if it is just a one issue thing then I can almost agree with that.
My worry is that this is the trend of things to come. I worry that the next couple issues will be this same thing. And that I think it is worth worrying about. I pay my same monthly fee. And while I understand some like this, not everyone does. I do agree we should have variety, as long as that variety includes those that have no interest in raids. Future content should include those that prefer small teams. Those that like raids got them this issue.
Variety also would mean that future content isn't focused on Praetoria. I've had about enough of it. Something new now please.

I still cannot understand the rationale behind wanting solo access to powers that are most useful on team content and would completely trivialize already-easy regular content. The best argument I've heard is that your interests are not being met, but you know what, neither are those of the base-building and PvP communities. You can't always get what you want. It sucks that you're not getting any new stuff, but you are making the choice not to play the new content, and the devs can't do everything at once. Right now they're focusing on Incarnate content. 5 years ago they were focusing on Villain content. Priorities change.