What is going on with Square Enix and the 14 team?

[Oglaf]

This thread makes me feel a bit out of place seeing as I'm genuinely the happiest I've been with this game in years currently.

I have a few issues and complaints (mostly jobs getting way too easy, and character appearance-related things) but I'm also having fun again. So I was pretty surprised to come onto the forums and see so many issues everyone was having, personally.

Glad you are are having fun, don't let forums let you down, I haven't seen so much negativity since Stormblood horrible launch.
Don't pay too much attention, the game is not perfect and like you said there are spots for improvement but to be honest many recent complaints are about core features of the game which are the pillar of this game since ARR. Others are complaints that exists since forever.

For the later, just let people whine and hope SE will keep improving on baby steps like they have been for years and accept that sometimes they will make mistakes.
About other complaints, accept it that this game is not WoW and it will never be. Complaining about the style of raids, rotation, leveling experience will fall into deaf ears.