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

[Vahlnir]

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.

Part of what keeps a lot of players going in WoW is running old content for transmog items (glamour) and mounts/minions. Even when everything in the current expansion feels awful, players can go back and get things that they want. That's how I got through WoD and BfA, really. lol Unfortunately, their recent stat/level squish messed with old content scaling hard, so those who would normally solo farm old raids (and therefore prolonging how long they stay subbed) are having a difficult time doing so in Legion raids, which is what many were looking forward to farming. Legion is a major point of contention here, because by now players would usually be able to run into these raids and solo them for the most part with the Legacy buff. There is no legacy buff in these raids despite meeting the criteria (11+ levels over the content in question). And the dev team only admitted to messing this up after being caught red handed and have yet to fix it to my knowledge.