Open world content...

[Felis]

What's the point of redesigning all of the zones if everything is going to be instanced? Now we have one giant, uninteresting world, and the fact that it's so uninteresting doesn't even matter because the only places on it that are relevant are the 15x15 area in front of Aurum Vale entrance, the 15x15 area in front of Cutter's, the Hamlet gather point, the entrance to Garuda, the entrance to Ifrit and Ifrit Extreme, and the relic faction leve areas.

So here we have one massive world and the only parts of it of any relevance can basically be fit inside a market ward.
That's what instanced content gets you.

Without open world HNMs, a fix to the claim system, etc, I'll feel betrayed even more than I did at launch because at least during launch I didn't suffer through this for two years for nothing in anticipation of it.

Don't understand why we can't have everything....

Despite the OP's wall of text, he nailed it from top to bottom.

• You need to travel to the instanced entrance once first (before you can use the content finder for this)
• Gatherer content would be 95% open world (5% instanced during hamlet)
• Primal is 67% open world (only the fight is instanced. You need to find and claim it first)
• Quests would be open world
• Leveling would be open world
• Chocobo caravan, Behest, Leves are open world
• Achievements would be mostly open world
• Farming is open world
• More things we know nothing about would be open world