Most people in FFXIV do not raid. The devs have said so. This is not a raid-centric game. And I say that as someone who will do a raid at least once just for the experience.

As for this thread, I completely agree with the OP. I’m an altaholic. In every MMO I play, I have multiple alts. Variety is the spice of life. I cannot imagine playing one character and one character only for a decade. Holy crap, that’s boring!

FFXIV should be more alt friendly, especially when games like SWTOR and GW2 - and lets be honest - pretty much every single MMO on the market today , let’s you do everything the OP listed.

Making alts is part of the MMO experience.