Trend of Mijin created topics. Most pretty ignorant without research.

Yoshida has expressed constantly how much of a heavy MMO player he is and has played serveral MMO's, Camelot was just one of his primary ones.

Yoshida has also made his team play other MMO's to get the feeling of how a working MMO title works. He has had them play a bunch of WoW for starters.

Everything in 2.0 sounds legit and if you actually looked upon the resources of information also, you might agree. Like or hate the new direction of FFXIV, but thinking it will not be a polished product seems very unlikely, especially with how much money SE has put into the project in whole, both the current version and 2.0.