Do people really play this as a FF game (or a pseudo single player game), it seems anytime people are recommending FF games people always say “skip 11 and 14 they are MMO’s”

Of course casual players exist but are they really interesting in nothing but the story as a solo experience or is it because it’s both able to be played as a solo game but it’s also a social MMO, the discussion of MMO’s being solo friendly is a tale as old as time, is the casual playerbase coming from “this isn’t an MMO to me this is just a really long FF game” or is it coming from people who’ve always wanted a seriously casual friendly MMO but got pushed away from older MMO’s that discourage solo play