I generally prefer avoid combating other people's viewpoints on this forum, so I'll just clarify my own.

1. The increasingly aggressive attempts to monetize FF14 further are disheartening at best, and offensive at worst.
I personally the game is very much worth playing, but I can totally respect someone's decision to cancel their sub and move on to activities that they believe are worth their time and money.

2. In spite of my previous statements, I must admit I feel the community can exaggerate issues present with FF14.
In particular, I do not feel the Stotmblood expansion is lacking in content; aside from base game difficulty.

3.The aforementioned base game difficulty.
I really enjoyed the difficulty curve for the MSQ in Heavensward, and it's quite sad for so much of the content in StormBlood to end up so mind-numbingly easy.
I don't care for raids, savage / ultimate instances, or deep dungeons; but I would verily appreciate more challenges in the base game.