Please don't see this as a troll reply or something to start a WoW vs FFXI debate but if you only played FFXI before FFXIV and now FFXIV is your MMORPG only then will you understand.
I can never expect people anything other than FFXI to understand what I'm trying to say.
Reason for this is simple its the same franchise it should be more thought into it.
Just check the game reactor interview with Yoshi P from last year he has no FFXI experience and comes from DAoC and WoW.
When it comes to cashflow and lifting up the company and game to a mainstream commercial level he is doing an amazing job.
This is a business after all but somewhere along this road the people who made this possible for SE and Yoshi P to continue FFXIV are not getting what they signed up for it seems.
I don't think anyone wants a new FFXI but I think ALOT of the FFXI community who came to this still want a challenge that can be rewarding gearwise and contentwise to make you feel you earned something.