Did Yoshida went a bit too far by cloning WoW?

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I've played WoW and Aion. FFXIV is in no way shape or form even close to Aion. Aion actually requires work, the combat system there is standard point and click but there's a way better combo system.
However I do think FFXIV is a more easy version of WoW.

tthis game has the second most subscribers of any MMO out there?

Not arguing or saying this isn't true but can I have the link to where you found this information? I remember towards re-release they said they had 300k active subscribers. Then everything else just turned to "Accounts" and or "registered users".