Agreed with everything OP said except this:

Quote Originally Posted by WeiShan View Post
How about their gameplay experience?
Some example:
1.23 King Moogle Mog: grind keystones with friends(good memory),people help each others.
No thanks. Grinding items to run primals was extremly annoying and a mindless boring time sink.

I'd like to add: GATHERING.

1.0's is x9999 better than this faceroll 0 key mash "gathering" YoshiP put here.