The new player experience and how FFXIV fails as an MMO.

[Nadda]

No. Disagree.

MSQ length isn't a problem.

Expansions are supposed to expand a game.
If you're endgame oriented that's one thing but I know of other MMOs where everything in the past becomes irrelevant. I don't want that for FF14.

People think of these like dream scenarios where you're perfectly in sync with playing with others in MMOs.

People have mismatched schedules

Someone is always ahead or behind

And eventually, everyone ends up soloing stuff anyway the quests are designed to be solo'd

Are you thinking of like - Everquest or FF11 where singular mobs could beat the shit out of you so you were forced to group up? It's not that I think that's bad it's just not really the design of modern MMOs.
Even if you duo level in something like Classic WoW you're mostly doing solo tasks but next to someone else and that gets pretty dull quickly.

Most MMOs are the multiplayer content is the Dungeon, is the boss fight, that's what you do.

So if not for anything, that's more of an indictment on modern MMO design which older MMO's have their own flaw of it then relying too much on playing with other people in order to get things done in the open world.
There's not really a happy medium where you're both able to be self sufficient and also play with players in meaningful interactable ways... that's why devs spend so much time making catered content for battle content for people to do together the rest of it is all social hangout sort of affair.