Who cares about end-game at this point?!

Even the basic missions that were in the beginning of XI offer a variety of ways to complete them the storyline is better written and every mission is better than XIV ones. Not to mention there are a LOT more of them to boot.

So far I've seen nothing like the rank 3 dragon fight in XI gameplay-wise.

Most of the starter missions are better too. In XIV most of the starter missions can be done with little to none player interaction and yet they have rank-locks that XI didn't have.

I had to grind for a month to reach a mission where I basically just had to watch an admittedly stunning cutscene (yeah one of the few in XIV since quests are leves) with no gameplay whatsoever! Next mission had a fight going on but I didn't need to participate in it to "win" it. The storyline makes absolutely no sense and it's written like a fantasy 101 amateur would do it.

Quests don't have any story to them nor cutscenes