I'm not going to copy/pasta all of your post so I'll just answer each separately lol.
1) If your server is too quiet; you can tell - it gets really hard to gather even a small number of people for events, you also hardly see cities being 'lively'.
2) I have played other MMOs :O, my reasoning is if there's people you'd rather never see again but still want to continue playing your main a transfer would be perfect. You can't exactly throw all your achievements onto another character and continue on from there, you'd have to start from scratch. Some people are happy to start over, some are not. For those that do not want to - server transfer would be perfect.
3) That sucks that your server transfer was wasted ;;, I've always seen XIV as more 'casual' - given the fact that you can log in for say 1hr and actually make progress instead of being forced to have 3+hrs available to party. I think ARR will suit a lot of people that have busy schedules! (I hope so, anyways haha)
4) When you finished your storylines in XI, you still had plenty of other content to tackle. ARR won't have quite the same amount of content from the get-go, but they will always add more! I will make alts for sure with my 40 character slots, but I would only play on one server (unless a r/l buddy started up elsewhere) so that I don't have to re-level my crafts (So tedious! lol). I know that this is now Yoshi-P's game, even though levelling will be fast, there's still going to be plenty going on after hitting the cap - and for those that want to keep all their goobs, swimsuits etc and move on would be able to.
