Yes, you would definitely get that feeling if you judge by the tone of the forums.

I humbly beg to differ based on what I see.
Wait wait, stop please...FFXIV had about 600K preorders, based on that alone you would infer that more people hate the game than those who like it. If SE is building a game ground up again, they want to target the people that left, not the people that stuck around because quite clearly the people that stuck around are easier to please considering they pushed through the agonizing first few months of the game. And even if the people who stayed just up and left because of changes the game sees, it would hardly harm the game any more than its already harmed, considering SE is probably aiming at 500K to 1000K player base as opposed to the handful that play today.