Quit trying to turn FFXIV into Wow, peeps

[Ilyrian]

I don't think you have to hate WoW to not want FFXIV to be heavily influenced by it as I happen to both be fascinated by WoW (though unable to play it as I only have a PS4) while moving the current iteration (more or less) of FFXIV.

You're doing it too - how can you know that you don't want things to be more or less like WoW when you, by your own admission, haven't played it.
Anyway - here's an example of what I think you (and others) who dislike WoW (in principal at least it seems) should be worried about:

Class homogenization: This is a big one for modern-era WoW. Crowd-crontrol out the window, all classes can basically do the same thing: "Bring the player not the class" mentality. Class buffs gone (racial buffs went years ago). This is creeping into FFXIV - first with the removal of allocated stats and cross-class skills... that's the first step and something that I, and you, should be concerned about.