Wow, I'm amazed - I literally am, not even being cynical here. I am well aware I'm no saint either, but I understand that what was meant as a friendly outreach from my side in the end wasnt even welcome. I'll leave it at that - and because I dont have the time to actually quote each and every post of you: please, clean before your own doorstep before making a list of when people responded in a not-super-friendly way to you. You started this thread of with phrases like "Enlighten me with your wisdom, oh FFXIV community" when people did not agree with you and "Let the door hit you".
I see now that even kind words are wasted on you - I was actually willing to engage in a healthy discussion at that point but it seems to me more and more that all you can do is spit into peoples faces. I'll leave you like that, have a good day, sir - and should you ever require some friendly, not topic-related interaction, you're welcome to make an alt on Odin, find me and we can see where that leads us - I actually mean that.
On behalf of the topic: I think, I summed up my arguments well enough already, as far as I can tell the majority (so far) seems to rather agree with them, so... discussion closed, since all the contra-side (as in: the OP) brings to the table now are accusations and not arguments?
Still, to respond to your argument about "Convenience and Efficiency" - is that really how you view friendship? Because a convient and effient "buddy"-system is in order - it "buddies" you up with other people for raids, trials, dungeons etc. and is called the duty finder. Let me tell you that meaningful relationships between people dont form out of "Convenience and Efficiency" - and sometimes things that seem like they would be effient and conventient are just unnecessary for the majority (like, I dont know, those funny fish-shaped "tools" that help you to seperate eggs and let you save 2 seconds of your life) - this seems to be the case here. Many have expressed that they are completly satisfied with the systems we have and that they dont have a desire for yet another one. Why "fix" whats not broken? Why shift SEs view from providing a game with game content to an enviroment to find your best friend? Thats simply not what this is all about...