At this point I am just waiting for their next MMO, in all honesty. Yes, XIV is still fun, but there's so many things they can't do due to legacy system limitations that it's become depressing, and the game is starting to feel and look dated. I mostly just play for the story these days and even that can be vexing in how you have no real ability to make meaningful choices in the story and are just following a script, which in turn also limits what jobs they're able to implement, because some, like Necromancer, would not be "compatible" with the lore for the protagonist.

I can understand why people complain about the amount of combat content, because between 5.2 and 5.4, i.e. the next patch with raids, there will potentially be more than 8 months. That's a long content drought, particularly if your interest in the relic is very limited. The alliance raids and ex modes are also very quick to clear, so they're not lasting content by any stretch of the imagination.