Not to mention, storyline-wise, all players have to gravitate towards Ul'dah to start the higher-ranked storyline quests anyway. That's another concept I really didn't understand, the need to place everything at Ul'dah to start off with. Limsa Lominsa is pretty much neglected after it's initial quests, because no following quests involve going back to Vylbrand at all. Gridania is a bit better off, since some quests are involved there, but there's a very heavy bias to how the storyline revolves around Ul'dah.

If they create more quests for the story, and implement them around Limsa Lominsa and Gridania, it would probably be better as well for a small part of the problem. Perhaps not so much a huge issue compared to the others you've mentioned, Renta, but I still find it slightly aggravating.