Simplicity over complexity, time to change.

[Felessan]

Things like that, travel, having a journey for things and worldly elements like consistency in travel and not just being able to jump instantly to whatever location you want and mob behavior patterns and weather affects that matter; things like that have a SUBTLE but important influence on how you perceive the game you play.

You know, I really like my character clothes become wet in the rain. It does creates immersion. FF14 has it, while FF11 has not (as well as WoW).
The point is that you can add immersion features without need to worsen accessibility/simplicity of "everyone" content. You just need to be more creative and look around to possibilities, without sticking "it was like so in ff11, so let make it the same in ff14"

1000 wow clones, 0 ffxi clones. Why in the heck would you want another WoW clone?

Maybe because WoW was partially FF11 clone?