I believe the less power players have in a game the better. Just look at all the ridiculously bad suggestions that have been made on these forums for changes to the game. If even 10% of those suggestions were implemented you'd have loads more people leaving the game than there would be joining it.

Turf wars, as described earlier, can be seen in games like Aion, whereby players must defend territory against NPC's and PC's. Such large scale events would not be possible in FFXIV due to graphical restrictions. I believe Aion also had plans for player housing and territory wars for the housing, from what I remember from some visions of Aion video they had a while back. Perhaps you should be playing that instead. If that's the kind of thing you're looking for, then FFXIV isn't the game for you.

That kind of gameplay isn't suitable for a casual friendly game. Only those active enough to be able to defend their territory would have any chance of enjoying the content while casual players would only be able to look at what other people have and realise it's nothing they'll ever be able to accomplish in the game. So we lose the casual player population, lose the income to the game that they provide and lose a lot of support for the game. Then we're left with a bunch of hardcore players fighting over the scraps that remain of a dead game in hope to gain some sort of 'respect' for their efforts.

At the end of the day, people have different ideas of what a good game is, hence people play different games. Instead of coming to FFXIV and trying to change it into something you want to play, you're better off finding a game you want to play. It's like a FPS player coming to FFXIV and complaining that it's not a FPS game.