I don't know what to say... I think fishing is alright in this game. it's better than WoW's fishing cause usually when fishing, you want to alt tab and do other things, multi tasking... not just standing looking at the water... in WoW you gotta alt tab and click the bobber... in here you just have to press two buttons.
My favorite fishing was in Lunia... you could afk and your character just fishes stuff as time goes on automatically.. I don't remember but I think black desert might be the same way? maybe not..

But fishing in FFXIV doesn't seem that bad to me.. yeah it's rng... so what.. I guess it is really hard to catch some fish... but that's normal and okay to me. I'm stuck on that level 53 fishing quest... [SPOILER]where you have to fish up 3 HQ ice picks... they cost 80k for all 3 I think in the market... seems like a good way to make money.. but dang... they're insanely hard to catch... I barely caught 2 normal ones in over 15 minutes fishing. [/SPOILER]