I agree, it shouldn't be the main source and it looks like the game is moving towards what you think anyway.

To be honest I'm embarassed when I tell people about games like FF11 and FF14 because when I get done talking about all their cool content I cringe when I have to bring the brutal truth of their endless xp grinds that some say make them seem like "work".
I felt that XI was more of a grind than XIV, maybe because I had grind for long periods of time to actually do anything in XI.