SE, no effort anywhere lately.

[Vahlnir]

Yes. In WoW right now.

WoW is horribly buggy, unbalanced, messy lore and endgame has issues, but at least other games know what fun is. Pet battles, Toys, smooth jobs with utility and each with their own iconic abilities, proper achievements and collection tabs, ridiculous amounts of soloable old content with rewards and so on.

FF14 is so sterile, watered down and it feels like all the activities have to be Developer Approved and are restricted by the need to be morally correct. Can't make it rewarding, people will feel forced to do it. Got to make the dailies really short. Got to be accessible! Can't stress the healers and tanks, bland jobs and faceroll dungeons! Can't trust players with addons! Can't have crafting take effort, wanting gil is evil, hand it all over on a plate! Even the story is dull and just there to move the plot forward with a polite overstated "joke scene" thrown in here and there, instead of banter, conflict and real character interaction and development.
I never thought I'd play WoW again, but it has been so damn refreshing to load up a game and find yes, I get gold from everything, I can have my addons, there's gear all over the place, a million pet battles and toys, my achievements are displayed in guild chat and I receive and give out a "grats!" for good ones, side quests are actually worthwhile, everything gives exp, I can buy cash shop items with gold, there's tons of QoL, transmog tabs, so much bag space, crafting from my bank, season events I can spend proper time on ...and so on, without Dad (Yoshida) leaning over my shoulder and saying "oh no, I don't think that's good for you, I'm confiscating that. That'll be 12.99 a month please".

I'm playing other games like they told me to. Sub expires just before 6.4. I am not coming back for this patch or any after it.

This is pretty much where I'm at, too. I've been playing WoW again for about a month now after taking an extended break, and it really has felt like a breath of fresh air. Dragonflight isn't perfect, but it feels like the devs just...get it, for lack of a better term. For now, at least. I know Blizzard's track record, and they can change course at the drop of a hat. Until then, I'm actually having fun progressing on multiple fronts while throwing some old content into the mix. I haven't outright quit FF XIV and I likely never will, but I haven't actually been playing for a couple of months now. SE as a whole just disgusts me at the moment. If FF 16 flops, I may end up letting my FF XIV sub lapse and my house go, and that is not a decision I may make lightly. I suppose I'm just sticking around at the moment hoping that things will get better.