Well, I could and have in many replies, gone all out and expressed my opinions, but this time I'll keep it simple. For the lack of better words, I believe the initial development teams (including the Project Leads) we a bunch of inexperienced ... well... monkeys, or humans with the intellect of monkeys. This game brought much shame to the name of Square Enix as they've always been known to be a very professional company that employs highly skilled developers. I'm not sure what happened with FFXIV, but something went terribly wrong. Maybe they got the initial crew for an incredibly cheap price (hopefully anyway, since it must be costing a lot to re-write many core systems).

Anyway, I would watch for the game to constantly continue to improve as SE has way too much at stake (their name) to let this game die out as a flop in history.

Hang in there, better times ahead.