it will be nice and not miss totally the point, we aren't saying it's exactly like FF11, but they tend to get into this direction.
youcan say it was worst and longer and i will answer, it was needed for the game, the add of the content was really far from what we did get so far with FF14.
in FF11 we will never did hope get this much content added every 3 month. then heavy time sink was needed for make sure people stay on the game and have stuff to do.

however, FF14 pace of content added is far more than enough for avoid to fall into heavy time sink mechanic, more important we are in 2014, final fantasy 11 have come out in 2003 in USA more of 11 years ago. the technology and the need have evolve, you can't hope make people be happy with the same mechanic that was working at this time.

FF11 was a very good game, but it's another game, we can't allows SE to redo the same error of the V1, and they begin to redo them!