I agree, but my problem is mostly with healers, tanks too a little, and if they aren't fixed I'm done with 14, as what's the point? Healer and Tank are equally my two fav roles, but healers are a complete failure and tanks are just DPS with dumbed down kits and simple aggro mechanics to handle, and story isn't enough to keep me engaged alone.

I aint gonna say why healers suck and tanks are in a tricky spot, cause everyone knows already, lack of things to do in downtime and homogenization. And DPS are fun yeah, funnest role to play, but only because of how lame healers are and how iffy tanks are.

And I know what you may need thinking, "what about that story you mentioned?" 14's story is pretty good, for a FF, and for MMO, least that's what people say, don't play MMO's besides 14. But story on it's own is never enough to keep me engaged with a game, either its gonna be solely gameplay or a split between both, but ultimately if gameplay sucks I'll get bored quick, but that's just me.

I also should mention that I'm just getting into other things, playing old FF's again, reading books, I just started getting into dinosaurs for the first time too, I never got engrossed with them in the late 90's and early 00's, and with all these things interesting me, and 14 slowly driving itself into a hole it may not be able to escape, then ill say again, why even bother?

There's tons of old FF's to play, bloody crapload of books to read, and lord knows there's plenty of dinosaur media to enjoy of all types. I need to spend what free time I have on things I genuinely enjoy after all.

TL DR: Healers being in a awful spot has left me feeling I'll be able to leave 14 for good too, I'f they ain't fixed. With other things that are interesting me nowadays too, it only compounds that feeling.