To be perfectly honest, I don't give a rat's ass if zones are recycled and reskinned. I only care about whether or not the content within said zones is fun or not.
FFXI is fortunate to have the opposite problem of FFXIV. We have loads of fun content in reused/reskinned zones. FFXIV has stunningly beautiful zones and music, but there's little to no content. While I'd love to explore new zones as much as the next guy, it could be so much worse.
/point FFXIV