The direction XIV is heading

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What I really don't understand is:

Why is SE doing everything they can to alter the game to something that people don't seem to want? Especially the XI fraction. I'm all for a new approach if it's fun and dandy but XIV can't be called that in my oppinion, sadly.

I don't think this game must copy everything that is XI, but then again the things XIV did so far aren't exactly what I hoped for.

While we even had a poll stating that must people who currently play this game come from XI, and even the devs said they want to develop for fans of XI firstly, then fans of MMOs and lastly for players in general, why can't I see this?

Some things that come to mind (while probably each of them is a minor annoyance, in total they make me feel as if I'd rather not want to see what XIV is going to become) are
stuff like the removed caracter collision (now I do feel even more like a ghost), the aggro indicator (where is the adventure in knowing everything beforehand?), quests (XIV's missions) that are not only easy but soloable (maybe this changes after r26?) and so on. There are more things like that but I think you get the idea by now.

Maybe I'm wrong with what I stated above so I hope I can find some enlightment with an upcoming discussion. What are your thoughts about it? Thank you!