Am I just old fashioned?

[Gilthas]

And I am 100% with you on a more challenging world bringing this community together. Frankly the FF14 community as a whole is terrible and it's mostly because the duty finder really doesn't care about your reputation and you don't need to build a good reputation with others to do anything in the current open world together. Maybe forcing people to work together on the same server might actually push people to start acting a little more decent toward one another.

This is such an empty argument.

FFXI had the overworld that you want, and what did we do there? Stick to our linkshell for virtually all the hard content. Those Party Finder groups for Ex fights and Coil? That's where your reputation matters. This idea that forcing group content in the overworld will make the game more sociable is a fallacy.