FFXIV's Systems Ain't That Deep, but They Could Have Been.

[DPZ2]

I'm sure if I was getting 15$ a month per player I surely could come up with something in at least 10years.

Except, well, they have "come up with something". The fact that you, personally, do not like what they decided on may be the issue - for you, personally.

For me, personally, customization was that thing you go to icy-veins to let them tell you what the current Balance discord figured out within the current parameters of the game.

What I really despised about WoW was that special gear with neat stats and procs became useless in the next expansion. And don't get me started about Legendary Weapons and the grind to feed them.