Doubling down on "Playing solo" is a stupid direction

[Katori96]

It’s not that hard or even overwhelming to grind out jobs to max unless you are the impatient type that needs it all done in like 2 weeks.

While I'll agree that it's not that hard to grind them out, in my opinion you cannot have to many options for leveling in a MMO. Especially when the story is the primary draw to the game it makes the most sense to me that NG+ should give XP of some kind.