End game... Bored. The facts.

[Orsnoire]

Try and stay away from making silly ad hominem arguments, not helping your case.

Every MMO has "lateral progression", we call it rolling an alt. The only difference here is that it's all in one character and that instead of redoing your quests you just farm FATEs all day every day. It really isn't anything revolutionary and it won't save the game anymore than it has saved any of the other games that tried to have rerolling as their main end game.

The difference is, rolling alts in a different game doesn't give you benefit for your main. So no, it's not at all the same thing.

The fact that you believe it is betrays your misunderstanding of the basic premise of XIV.

Just a REALLY obvious case in point: if player A doesn't have his or her cross class abilities done, then he or she is quite literally gimped for endgame content, and has objectively not finished even basic progress for his or her primary job.

That person then claiming that this game has nothing to do and that they've run out of content is ignoring their own most basic progress, and, as I said before, is doing it wrong.

Edit: also, it's poisoning the well, not ad hominem. Pointing out a clearly observable fact (your level) isn't an attack on you personally. It undermines your credibility, but that's why it's a poisoning the well fallacy and not ad hominem. Try to actually understand what fallacies you're going to call people on before using them, as it further undermines your credibility when you use them inappropriately.

(fun fact: your statement

not helping your case

is a poisoning the well fallacy as well, so hey pot, this is kettle, you're black)