All of you guys who have compared this to XI and how XI is so much better than XIV in one aspect or another (gear progression, min/max builds, etc) clearly haven't played XI in a good, long while I'd say since XI has done all of that stuff you guys are complaining 14 is doing. Abyssea + SoA...

Now on topic OP, as far as this game being "boring", well define boring? Not enough content? Not enough replay value in said content? Because there are a lot of dungeons in the game so far, and you could have chosen any of them to get exp/gear as you leveled up. You can also do the dungeons because their mechanics are fun and or challenging. Aurum Vale is a fun dungeon to do just for the hell of it. Darkhold is another. They are very different from their 1.0 counterparts and you can do them simply for something fun to do.

As far as crafting, there is plenty of incentive. You can meld the lvl 55/70 gears to be on par/better than DL/End-game stuff.