I'm in the exact place as you. Ever since the 7 week per tome weapon thing and 2 24 man raid per upgrade instead of 1, my interest have been dwindling. The yokai watch event was the final nail in the coffin. Once I tried that and was stuck in Central Shroud grinding the same FATES I was 3 years ago, I went to Mogstation and canned my sub. Now I'm just waiting for my current sub to run out since I've paid 6 month at a time.

The stuff is not hard at all, it just take more time compare to before for reasons only beneficial to the devs.

Right now I'm just focusing on making money. Once I get myself that apartment next month and buy a large house in ishguard, depends on what the devs do (which I'd imagine the same thing as they are doing now, maybe worse in terms of grind). That's probably it for me.

I've been taking a break to beat the ever so awesome Tropico 4 ($7.49). Then I try to come back to this and it still didn't help. Just the same grind of the same contents for 20 bucks CAD a month, for that kind of cash I can buy an indie game, or a game on sale every month or every 2 month, either way I'd be experiencing more fun than what I'm paying for in this game.