Is "Traditional" a cop out?

[Malakhim]

"A lot" is an extremely vague term in this case, because "a lot more" people would agree with me.

I'm arguing with cold, hard numbers here, that you can see in the poll results that SE released:

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...16083b634f7678
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...98e4034b898102

Only 6.6% of the people polled thought of gameplay as the most appealing part of FFXIV. Auction house, a fix for market wards, was the 2nd most requested addition to FFXIV. 72% of the people expected overhaul to FFXIV gameplay. The 2nd most requested fix was the combat system, behind lack of content, and ahead of market wards. Only 16% of the people like the current bonus point system.

Seriously, I'm not trying to be a douche here, but you're clearly looking at this from a very biased standpoint. Gameplay is the WORST thing about FFXIV. It's broken and crappy and needs fixing. It's been criticized up and down about it since release, by professional reviewers, amateurs, current players players, former players, prospective players, trolls, cats, whatever. Even SE and Yoshi themselves released information that this is true.

These numbers are what led me to believe that nobody liked the stuff in the first place, but then I waltz in to the appropriate threads here, and to my surprise, plenty of people(at least those who have posted) enjoy things like the aforementioned combat and such.

Keep in mind that all those results are the combined percentages of all regions. If you look at the combined numbers for each region separately, then things aren't so obviously unanimous. There's still a wide margin of people who don't agree on all the issues you're presenting or at least not huge numbers pointing in any direction. Using those polls won't give you the best picture for that reason and several others.