Gonna say, my enjoyment of FF14 went down after 2.1. Before there was an interesting crafting system that's fairly unique, compared to what's available in most other MMOs, to go along with the combat system.

Now it's basically just another tab target MMO with very little else. Been there, done that. Repeatedly. My friends aren't hugely into crafting though, so if we're still around for 2.2 maybe I'll get to see something interesting again.

Not holding my breath, though. I highly doubt there'll be any payoff for people that are willing to invest any amount of effort into their crafting classes beyond dinging 50 to be able to meld materia and wear unmelded crafting gear that can easily make 99% of the recipes in the game. The unchecked bots for all the gathering (mob killing and BTN/MNR nodes) isn't helping matters either. It feels like SE just doesn't care about all the bots.