What's odd is that the mi'qote are really still the same as the mithra; they are a mostly female race with a small amount of males in it. The men seem to be the leaders, but they still are very rare as a presence in the game, and it feels like the ones we meet mostly exist out of the actual mi'qote tribes. The U tribe is still mostly women. Its just this time you can play as them.

As for community, you don;t have it because WoW is a crappy game and trained MMO people to do everything solo. That's really it, FFXIV just copied it and inherited most of its problems in the same way FFXI copied old-style EQ and inherited that game's problems too. Probably the only unique thing would be that FFXIV has no real long term gameplay for above 8 players.