Until I get enough materia to fully outfit my GSM at least, I am damn well motivated enough to play this game. I might add that I spiritbond all of my materia, and I self-craft all gear I want to spiritbond. I don't intend to drop a dime for materia for melding on my GSM outfit. When it comes time for me to craft my own 1-star and 2-star recipes, I intend to run as many WP as I need to, in order to get the philos to buy the materials myself.

As has been stated, it's just how you choose to look at it. You choose to look at one aspect, and completely shut out the rest. I feel like I have tons of things to do, and not enough time to do them all. I still have plans to level a Weaver to 50, Carpenter to 50, start a Marauder and level that to 50, start a Dragoon and level that to 50, get my Conjurer up to 34 for Stoneskin, get my Arcanist up to 34 for Eye for an Eye, level a Botanist to 20, one day hopefully craft my own Vanya set, and many others. All of it is in between helping out people for relics, and running Titan HM because a friend of mine likes to run it. My goals that do not involve levelling a class include crafting my own Vanya set, outfitting all my crafting classes with their HQ AF gear, and respective melded materias, and collecting an Ifrit's Horn and a Garuda's Feather. I can choose not to stop there either - I can even go further, and get 2 more Ifrit's Horns, 2 more Garuda's Feathers, and 1 more Titan's Heart (because I already have two Titan's Hearts).

Don't choose the path with least resistance, then ask "now what?" at the end of it. Be sure you've planned ahead for it, because nobody can plan it for you.