OMG please remove some of the aetherytes, the world feels tiny

[Dark-Saviour]

As for the comments of it just being an issue of there not being enough to do in the world...

While I do agree that the lack of people doing open-world content is disheartening, having everyone flood the surface would actually make the original problem worse. At that point the world not only feels tiny and constrained, but instead is now tiny, constrained, and crowded.

If you will excuse me, I'm going to be purposely obtuse for a moment. I disagree. The world is, in fact, quite enormous. The Eorzea that we inhabit is a small portion of a small island in a small archipelago, situated in a moderately sized continent on an earth sized planet. If anything, the relatively confined nature of the currently accessible portion of the world only goes to further illustrate how massive the world actually is. The Garlean Empire, by all accounts, spans 2 to 4 times again as much space, and is far from holding the entire world. A few expansions down the road, and I doubt you will be able to say the world is too small.

Considering the scale of Eorzea compared to the rest of the world from the maps we've seen, yes... what we're seeing does make the world seem tiny (IMO at least). Had it actually been the case that we really just got a tiny patch of the entire world (at the proper scale), I'd be more open to it, but the supposed size of the landmass we do have access to needs far more room to work properly.
Villages less than a minute jaunt from one another with half a dozen houses each does not a compelling world make. :-\