On the other hand it is a nice centralised place to gather all your mats for Ishgard Restoration, it's good enough exp and honestly is about as interesting as gathering is, just with more mats available in one space.

What I would like to see is that this version is built on to start to add more gathering based content. Rather than SE look at it as another failure, because I think this is the right idea.

The battle content went to Eureka, which they built on and made improvements on for Pyros and Hydratos. And better it stay there because the battle content was worse than anything Eureka has offered us.