You're completely missing my point.

People can be nostalgic for many different reasons and you cannot say that all of them are invalid.

It's not just the party search. It could be a myriad of reasons, like /sea, /seacom, AH etc.

Square Enix has been innovative with FFXIV. It's not finished yet.

You sure seem to have a lot of different jobs levelled to be saying that you're unimpressed seems quite contradictory.