Let's have a round of applause for bringing grind parties front and center in FFXIV

[Raim]

Progression through the game (leveling) by way of a large number of solo quests based on a few archetypes is exactly what WoW brought to the MMO world, and that is what the OP is suggesting FFXIV do now.

Quests existed before but were used differently in other games at the time. Dungeons and raids are entirely irrelevant and no one even mentioned them but you, because you're trying to paint everyone who doesn't want solo, quest-based progression as a blind WoW hater.

I just don't see whats wrong with having that as an option, even if its not the most viable leveling option. However, after the patch its nigh impossible to solo under any conditions, despite that being the direction that the developers said they would allow.