Stories that focus on the individual should never require parties.

[Goufunaki]

MMO games should require groups to do most things. Why are so many people wanting to relegate party play to nothing other than instanced raids? bleh.

Because the goal was to make the game more casual friendly? Yoshi-P himself even talked about how people these days don't have the time to play for extended hours.

Right now, aside from helping your friends out, there's no incentive to replaying certain quests if you already finished them.

Most people play with parties and if content and quests and missions are designed around `Guofunaki who doesn't want to play with anyone` it'll all be back to being boringly and pathetically gimp for the rest of us.
My advice to you is to go do a leve.

But right now I'm still stuck sitting in Ul'Dah with no replies what so ever when asking for help.