Or maybe the video game should be improved.
There are lots of people who rush to cap and try to grind there way there as quickly as possible. But in FFXIV, there is almost nothing to do once you get there. As you rank along the way, there are new areas unlocked, new skills learned, story, etc. Once you are at 50 - all that comes to an end and the only existing content in the game is - Grind this content for gear, so that you can be better at grinding this same piece of content.
And yes...we all know new content is coming. But there is not this magical world of content that suddenly becomes available at 50. Instead it's actually the end of most of the content in the game (or super easy mode because there aren't lots of r50 quest lines or anything being released to play, anything else is lower rank). I can easily see reluctance to get to 50 because that ends the progression and story for your main class. And if it is a class you ranked up, and enjoy playing...well that's
