With the exception of a small handful of interesting points of interest in 1.0, I don't think FFXIV ever really had that magic in the first place. Most of the world was copy/paste in 1.0, and while there were monsters that could trounce you at level cap, there was very little waiting for you once you'd managed to sneak by.

Personally, if we're going to see an FF MMO (or any MMO) with 'that magic', I'd rather see one designed from the ground up on that premise, rather than see FFXIV go through yet another session of "corrective" surgery.