so bored of reading things "they should make this thing like they did with FFXI ... "

GO TO PLAY FFXI , FFXI is a very old style game, FFXIV have to compete with brand new mmo like, SW , Tera, GW2 , and more, you can't use the same old and tedious mechanic of XI in this game... Idk why ppl that still loves XI complain.. go to play it no? And let the dev make a completely NEW and FRESH game unlike anyone else.

Some ppl want gear switch too lol.. this is one of the worst thing of xi (but it WAS ok for an old game.. ) it completely ruins the balance of the battles.. Equip should be studied before you engace a combat, every new mmo do this, and even Tanaka that build XIV a disastrous game understood this aspect in time (luckly ) .
well 90% of the MMO market is already a wow clone and they all failed do you really want another wow(a.k.a the endless instance grind)? look at swtor only thing that it has going is full voice quest & choices other than that its a pure wow clone next wave of mmo's are gonna be wow clones it never ends. hopfully SE sticks to the roots and not become another linear game.

SW - wow clone
Tera - wow clone with boobies & korean grind fest
GW2 - solo like the first we'll find out? only reason GW1 is still alive is because its F2P.