First off: Loading your post up with pictures just makes it difficult and unpleasent to read (also: why bother to link the video, if you screenshot 50% of it?)

Secondly: Whats the point of this?
I get that some people - obviously including the OP - are nostalgic about FFXI and/or 1.0, but no matter how much you talk about those games: They're dead and they wont come back.
I havent played either of them, but I've been enjoying FFXIV since 2.0 Beta. I've found a great community, even without the game artificially forcing me into playing in tight-knitted groups.

I'm sorry, but which each of those threads I'm getting the feeling that the OP in question chooses to cling more to their rose-tinted memories and simply overlooks everything good in this game.
I do enjoy the atmosphere for certain areas and I enjoy the story.
There are epic bossfights in the game! And while events might work differently now, I dont see such a problem with it - maybe because I dont know better or maybe because there isnt really such a problem.

FFXIV: ARR is a different game than FFXI and 1.0 (at least from all that I know about those two) and the sooner you either get over that and accept that even a different game can bring you joy or decide that this game sadly isnt for your anymore, the better.

Quite frankly I like "my" FFXIV as it is now - sure its not all perfect, I'm not saying that. But I still like it - the music, the atmosphere, the story, the fights and yes, even the community and specially the great friends I made within this game! Sorry if it isnt working out for you (generic you) anymore, but from all that I've heard about 1.0 - a game that was so bad that it almost bankrupted a large company like SE! - I wouldnt want that back.

Keep your memories in your heart, forget about all the aweful stuff that was included in your game back then if you want... but realise that those games are "dead" and that this game is all you'll get.
...and please, please stop pretending and whining that there isnt any community. I'm sorry, but thats just not true - if you fail to make friends, thats on you - not the game. Even an MMO is first and foremost designed to be a game - not a replacement for a social life or network that you have to build yourself.