The removal of environmental collision detection is BEAUTIFUL.

[Atoli]

When I read about this in the patch notes, I couldn't believe it!
So I went online, to La Noscea, and -
oh my God, my character just ran through a fence the same height as itsself!-_-"

I also noticed where you can get up and down in the landscape became completely random.
Sure, it's nice you don't have to walk around every little hill anymore, but seriously, at least you could just take a look at the minimap and knew where to get up and down.
Now the map is completely useless, because the lines showing where you could NOT go up/down are not matching the real landscape anymore. But sometimes you still can't get up, leading to my character rubbing against an invisible wall all the time until it finally finds a way up.

That's not improved gameplay, that's a huge step backwards >_>
I never even heard anyone complain about this, why remove collision detection?x-X
Pretty much the only thing people never really complained about was the realistic world Eorzea is.
No, passing through solid fences and jumping up rocks twice your own height without even a jump animation is not realistic.