70% of up coming mmo's are getting away from the gear grind thread mill. Ppl are bored to death with rep and "tomes" grind.
We are gonna see less and less mmo's with rep grind and dailies. Why? Because we ran that for the last 8-10 years.
What XIV is looking at doing, is exactly this.

For some people it's ok but after 2-3 years of the same grind, everyone will want another progression system.
Except from Wildstar and ESO, there are basically no mmo's going the "theme park" style coming 2014-15 in NA. (Arche Age, Star Citizen, Black Desert, EQN/L, Bless, Pantheon, Pathfinder, etc)
Why did MoP fail so hard, the epic dailies and rep grind. Most ppl can't fn do that anymore.

Final Fantasy is my bread and butter in video games... but 1.0 sucked and 2.0 is not looking better in my book.