Something needs to be done about the empty open world

[GeminiReed]

I'm a little scared to start blue mage as it makes me worry it to late to get alot of the things due to them being "instanced" locations, ...

BLU is very doable. There are resources available and people (at least on Crystal) are very helpful with the BLU focused party finder parties.

... as for hunts, ive looked over they okay but it has the same proplems as maps.. limited vs worth compared to what instance content does, the open world content feels worthless and like they put now effort into it

If I need to grind tomestones organized ShB hunts are amazing. It's also great for farming augment material for the level 80 tomestone gear (Crystarium). I'll take an afternoon of that over grinding roulettes and all three Nier raids. I do like them, just not enough to do all three every week.