Once again, A) subscription-based model, B) renting of inventory (instead of a one-time purchase), C) intentional inventory bloat, D) high income high tax analogy and most importantly, E) Even if D) is false, two wrongs don't make a right.

I don't play WoW myself, but when I asked the friends who do and are at end game in WoW, they say they never had any inventory issues at all unlike in FFXIV.

At the end of the day, we are each entitled to our own opinion, though you seem to be kind of alone on your stance at the moment.

I think the "free retainer in HW" thing was more of a player's expectation thing. I was still following the official news pretty closely back then and I can't recall reading that from any official source and was pretty confused by the player's outrage back then .