Congratulations Square Enix! FF4 surpasses WoW this year. (Source inside)

[Stormpeaks]

I mean, you could argue this for all the stuff FFXIV has as well. You might just say "It's all dead content so it doesn't count!" and "Everyone's done it already!"
...but then that same argument applies to WoW. You can't praise it for having the same amount of stuff - or even more stuff - if it's just as dead.

Except that WoW has content, mainly Mythic+ and raiding, Mythic+ being infinite dungeon runs with scaling difficulty and scaling rewards, amongst other things, something... FFXIV doesnt have. And no, fishing is not equal to M+, there's also a lot more side content and reward systems.

I think if some people actually saw WoW's group finder, and compared it to FFXIV's PF, they would have a big surprise, one is a game for its content, one is just a social hang out with extremely slow drip fed content that has no longevity what so ever.

All dead content.

You seem to have missed that entirely, just so you can complain about FF14. It's so bad that players are going back to Shadowlands and refusing to do any of that. As the only active content in Dragonflight is an hourly Time Rift which has more than half the players AFK on the pillars until the Rift opens open for a few minutes of content. Then it's over.

I cannot recommend WoW to new players as the new player experience is horrid and when they get into Dragonflight they're overwhelmed with dead content that the game sends them to. It wasn't bad at the start of Dragonflight, when content was relevant, but now? It's real bad, and Blizzard refuses to re-scale these areas so that new players/late comers/alts can actually do that content.

Not to mention that a lot of that content is super grindy and doing the same stuff every day/week until you max it out. It's not innovative, and with them being dead zones they aren't even possible to do unless you super out gear them.

It's "dead" (it aint that dead by the way, every time I check there's people but sure) content because it's side content so not many people do it, people are doing the MAIN endgame content, which is instanced and done via either friends or group finder, there are hundreds after hundreds of groups every single day, even during content drought for it. WoW is not a social hangout simulator, it's a content game, with actual proper content.