This might be weird but I loved how gil in XI was really worth something. Saving up for a new spell was always rewarding and those farming the rare materials were awarded with good returns in the ah.

It just gave a lot of options on how you spend your time in the game.
Because nothing is worth farming in XIV there really isn't any reason to kill anything on the fields once you hit 50.

XIV's open world is like this whole great game that has the frame and all the visuals already there but they just didn't put the actual game in there.

I'd rather have RMT and open world content than (it's still there) RMT and lobby only raids.