How is anyone fine with the 4-month patch delivery schedule?

[Seraphor]

It may seem unlikely due to me posting on the forums, but I actually have a life outside of FF14, and I have plenty of other things I can do in that time.
I'm not simply AFKing in Limsa for four months, counting down the time between patches. 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, doesn't bother me.
6 months would be pushing it a bit though as that's enough time to forget FF14 altogether. That's the x.5-x.0 gap, which always results in a fairly dead game for a little while.