Normally I don't like when stories kill characters left and right like game of throne does, because it feels like it's done for sake of being edgy, and I think death needs to be treated with more respect than some stories treat it.

But FFXIV doesn't have an excuse. They have at least one fakeout every expansion, and if no one of the main cast ever dies those fakeouts are just predictable and pointless. If not an annoying waste of time.