The game and its current state

[Enkidoh]

Well, that's fair enough, but really, it's not like some previous FF games have truly remarkable storylines either (my own opinion of course but since FFX, the quality of storylines of FF games has, been a mixed bunch, from FFX's ridiculous dream people, to FFXII's 'Star Wars Episode IV in Ivalice', to the impenetrable psychobabble that was FFXIII's story and it's sequels - even FFXI's storyline ran off the rails eventually with recent expansions (the retconning started with Wings of the Goddess and continuing right through with the addons) contradicting previous storylines and rendering the earlier extended original narrative moot.

It seems to me that given your earlier comment about preferring The Secret World to FFXIV, it's more you're comparing apples to oranges - both are MMORPGs, but have totally different settings and storylines, and thus maybe this game really isn't your cup of tea. Personal preference for a particular genre is different to a game having 'issues', as your preference is purely subjective - based on your own individual tastes rather than any underlying design flaw with the game. So again, I think FFXIV ARR simply isn't for you.