Playing an expansion as current content has been a lacklustre MMO experience

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So go a play game that fits what you want, and stop trying to change the rest.

Shows how much of a new player you are to the game, Ive been playing FF14 since 1.0 and WoW since WOTLK.

Let me tell you something ironic about the this sentence from you, FF14 during 2.0 and 3.0 was closer to wow designs then now, the current FF14 we have is due to people wanting change.

Let that sink in, if you like the current FF14, this was due to people asking for change, some bad, some good. from a PVE POV, defo bad, the PVE battle content is weak and unvaried, nothing holds you on for long term.

FF14 did actually copy wow, its still in its DNA whether you like it or not, FF14 2.0 design intent actually had Yoshi P instructing the devs to actually play WoW and see what made it work and implement it in the game.