The long queues are not the issue. If I could queue and go about doing my life, it'd be fine.

The problem is that a) the queue at any time can randomly kick you so you have to be paying attention in order to requeue within the grace period to keep your position

and b) the queue will kick you if you are AFK in queue, meaning you have to keep going back to your PC and move the mouse every now and then to not get disconnected.

So in short, the way FFXIV handles queues is unhealthy since it demands players to stay right in front of their PC for anywhere between 2 to 4 hours just to make sure neither of the 2 errors happen.

And then there's a chance you'll get a dxerror or other error in the game and you'll go back to the end of the queue for another 4 hours.