Because the poll is pretty biased, I'll chose neither. I want FFXIV because it has the potential to be even better than it is now, though some things could use some tweaking. Leveling is one of them. Of course it's too fast currently. That doesn't mean they can't tweak things down the road. Death Penalty is not. If we ever start losing XP or leveling down as a death penalty I'm quitting immediately. Thankfully the devs have already said that's not in the plans.

Both games have their merits. However I signed up with FFXIV for FFXIV and mostly because it wasn't like FFXI. Never cared much for XI so I was happy to hear XIV would be different. FFXIV has the potential to be so much better than what we've seen before, why would we want to go back to that?

However if FFXIV is not to your liking you're more than welcome to go back to the dozens of WoW clones that exist out there or find a F2P game that suits your needs, good luck with that. I'm always an advocate of finding a game that you actually like to play. For me, that's FFXIV.