Not everyone considers grinding out levels to be actual content. I have never logged into an MMO thinking "mm yay I get to spend all day grinding levels wee". Leveling, to me, is just a grind. It can be long and it can be short. I am glad they shortened it, I am actually leveling other classes now.

I am having fun. Not leveling, but by doing end game content. To say PLing killed FFXIV is ignorant. To say skipping the monotonous grind causes you to miss out on learning your class is also ignorant. The classes we have aren't even all that complex.

FFXIV isn't dead, PLing didn't kill it. The only thing(s) that died were a few of my brain cells while reading the OP. FFXIV has so much going for it. And if you think it will be lacking content in any regard after 2.0, you are seriously out of the loop...