Let's be honest with ourselves here.
This expansion is basically the Cataclysm of FFXIV.

Almost every single aspect of EW aside from parts of the story are a tremendous decline from the quality of SHB.

The jobs are in the worst state they have been in for years.
PVP is such a mess that we probably won't see anything like The Feast again for a long time.
The post expac was such a letdown it absolutely crushed any kind of hype people had for a new and amazing story.
6.1 was 'the chosen one' that would 'fix housing'. All it did was making housing considerably worse for everyone.

The list honestly goes on and on.
It feels like the love and detail that was once put into this game has vanished, and it's been put on a holding pattern.

Call me a doomspeaker if you want, but this is probably the beginning of the end.
Cata was the same way for WoW, and no one wanted to admit it at that time either.

If this is the model for FFXIV's 'quality' going forward, the future expacs will only get increasingly worse.