While the game has plenty of content, we are unfortunately living in the ADD generation. They do things as fast as humanly possible, complain about having nothing to do, quit, and then return for the next major patch where the whole process repeats. Everyone rushes to be the world first at endgame bosses even though FFXIV doesn't even keep track of it.

This is part of the reason why so many games end up going F2P. And while I don't miss the year(s) it took to level up in FFXI, I do miss the staying power of the people playing. We would have people who had been playing for so long that everyone knew them. Now...well only the trolls are remembered.