Hit 50 and then everything's a grind, I agree. And once you finally finish the grind, it's more grind to get what you want. I was so excited to hit 3 star crafts but after grind I realized I had to grind even more because to make anything cute I needed rare drops from mats/desynth or grind some more on my gatherer for the mats.

Naaaah. I'm going back to games where you accept a quest and you get a reward for finishing said quest. Now that was fun, not mindlessly repeating content again and again and again to get anything done. Take the grind away and you realize how FFXIV doesn't really have that much going on outside of Hildibrand and the main scenario.