I disagree. I was put off by this game for years because of forced dungeons within the MSQ. My time playing World of Warcraft for over 12 years gave me the fear of being yelled at for the smallest mistake in any group content (( plus political hate speech in larger raids, that is also pointless)). So I feared even going into the first dung because I'm not used to the game. But I didn't learn FFXIV don't have that problem till a few months ago, so I don't mind doing non FC pugging.

I don't miss all the hate speech as so called opinions in trade chat and the super toxic LFR chat. I don't miss the gen forums gaslighting players calling them bad because they pointing out a problem in the game. I don't miss the toxic players telling everyone to quit so their game can be their way and so more.