The funny thing is I never get any actual examples of "taking the FFXI route" instead of "improving on XIV's unique systems" aside from auto-attack, which frankly I violently hate the thought of playing a melee attacker -without- auto-attack, so...

Do, like, chocobos and airships count, here, because they were the FFXI solution to "move around from place to place quickly"? Should they have somehow modified the anima system to make it less soul-suckingly awful?

I'm not -actually- trying to come off snarky here for the record, I am just kind of mystified by what exactly is meant by the complaints.