Just my opinion, but FFXIV has already given us an amazing starting point for an incredible story. We just lived through the end of the world, a world most of us got to know pretty well. How many questions are there that we want to have an answer for.. those answers, of course, are going to come in quest form.
I get the dread of quests for the sake of quests, but if we know that those quests will lead us to see louisiox again, or answer questions about Thancred, Y'shtola, Yda, and Papalymo, I can't see that being horrible.

But then again I'm a bit of a lore-whore, so this could be just me.

I think there are some people out there that desperately want to recapture that "first love" some of us got from playing FFXI, and thats the draw to the group mob-grind.