FFXI was like a gorgeous girlfriend that you wanted to show off to your friends but your friends could see that she made you work way too hard to get anywhere with her.

On a more serious note, for every good thing about XI one person can site...another can site something flawed in it, for example...Action House...

Some peeps want an XI stlye AH "because it works", while others remember the flaws and how it was "exploited by RMT".

So what we need is an "Improved XI style AH that can't be exploited by RMT"....or an entirely new system that works "better" than an XI style AH (but better than Market Wards).

LFG is another example. Some would be happy with XI's simple yet effective system while others want a more robust system with more options.

I think that some peeps get frustrated waiting for things "to be implemented in v2.0" and resort to saying things like "just give us XI's system".

As for Content...well we all just want Fun quests/Dungeons/Raids/PvE events, etc and probably don't care where the inspiration comes from as long as it is fun and rewarding.