To those that say FF14 is not a big dog in MMO's

[Y2K21]

The same was true of WOD.

Do we see a pattern here?

No, WoD literally had no content. Open world was dead. Garrisons provided all you needed so players rarely left them. Ashran sucked. Raid-logging was super prevalent. Only thing WoD had going was classes -- but if you had no content to do, class design basically meant nothing.

SL just doesnt have continuous rewarding content after loot changes. Lessened loot means less drive to do rewarding content. Maw and Torghast offer no long term rewards for actively doing them. Blizzard just doesnt actively make their systems with the same improvements provided in previous expansions -- and it does piss off a playerbase who wants to play but has no reason to and feels unrewarded for their time spent.

Sure, WoW sucks right now and isnt good -- but going "DAE SL = WoD" is just so tiresome.