I get the point OP is honestly trying to make. Basically more involving quests. While I totally agree on that point. I could not disagree more on the whole XI had great quest point.
Maybe horribly tedious with lack luster rewards sure.
But good and or moving not so much, from a your normal side quest given by random NPC lady in her house standpoint.

While quest lines where pretty good. Sometimes more involving than they should of been at times. Like why did I need to go half way across the world to talk to some random NPC hiding behind a bush for him to tell me two lines of dialogue that had nothing to do with anything. Or spending 4 hours to get a random drop off some mob just for some crap reward of 300gil and a level 10 body piece.

I'm just ranting but I think you get what I mean. I would like more than just point A to point B quests from XIV but soooo don't want long quests for no reason at all