Bottom line, alot of the game flaws come out of the concept that they had for it. The whole designing a game for "casual player" and all the content should be accessible and attainable for that casual solo player. I'm a casual player and I dont even want that. I have no problem playing this game casually for few years and working for something slowly, I dont think others should be penalized for me though and if I want to play for a week straight hardcore it should provide me with a different experience.
I been playing TERA for over a month and I like how they designed content for both. There are actually huge zones like in 14 but there's more variety to the design and there are parts of zones intended for solo play and others for group play. There are big parts of zones that you have no business going to if you're not in a party and also you can skip going to solo part of those zones if you do have a party. I mean we dont have to have no child left behind on 14 do we?