is this game love giving F2P experience?

[Gurgeh]

Same. I've been on and off playing since ARR, and I'm baffled that the tomes are still limited to 450 each expansion, so I can only X number of things before it's capped and I stop logging in for dailies.

Also, farming 99x totems for mount trade-in to be unlocked 6+ months later, I feel like this is slowly telling me to stop farming them since it's way too low of a drop rate for new Extremes at the start, it feels useless apart from the weapon. I haven't considered old mount for this reason since that'd be thousands of totems when I'm unlucky, and I'm always unlucky for RNG.

All of this.

I'm loging off because if there isn't an EX4 with a spot free for my main , then since Chaotic PF and still having nothing to show for clearing Ex1-3 my heart is just not in it enough to host my own anymore.
My alt role still can't get geared because of augment cap.
The truth is I enjoyed progging Ex1-3. I thought I was going somewhere, now I know I'm not. And I'm just not bothered if I ever clear EX4. I just don't know how to pick my PFs
and honestly, I'm afraid of look like a "progliar" just because I don't even realise I'm still misunderstanding the mechanic/strat.
Thanks to the augment cap even my main still wasn't fully augmented, and it's only just now catching up with normal raid gear. I had to share augments with my alt role to get that sufficiently greater for ex3 last patch.
I'm progging it. It's ok. But I'm not having fun anymore like was still with EX3.
34,000 gil a week I have leftover from the rouls I can still bear to queue is not enough to consider crafted grear. Crafting and gathering is just horrible with the vanilla game. (Not in hurry to unlock the moon). I reccon I'm probably still playing around 10 hours a week. That's enough. But I just absolutely will not dedicate it to meta farming on my own for x,y,z. I like to join in other people's activities. Go with their flow. But it's all pretty pointless as that means just super casual. There is no engaging casual.