I'll agree that we need more party-based content, but I think we can rest assured that kind of stuff is on it's way after the battle system restructure. they've said they're going to cut group sizes to 4 and 8 so that pretty much demands rebalancing of just about all party-based content before the update and means theyre likely to be making things with that system in mind (aka. the first dungeon due in 2 months or whenever).

After all, they decided to make a whole new game when the best choice was clearly to remake FFXI
Also, I was addressing this in my post before, so yes, people do want FFXI-2 for some unknown reason.