Quick Launch?

[Alhanelem]

Actually, no one logs out for short breaks becuase why bother? it's a short break. Just leave the game running. This game uses like almost none of any modern PC's computing power. There's no need to close it down for a "short break."

Playonline originally had (and to some small degree still has) other features besides just launching FFXI, and it's already been stated multiple times by the devs they can't simply remove playonline because core code of the game is intertwined with playonline systems (The game itself is actually a .DLL that is called by pol.exe, rather than an executable itself, and needs to make calls back to POL because playOnline manages your account information and character IDs and your Friend List). So unfortunately, no, you can't have it.