Sounds like you need to tell your friends to eat a bag of d**ks.
If they're your friends, they wouldn't knock what you like. I don't dump on my best friend, of 20 years, about his long standing addiction to Pokemon.
However, this game, like all others, can grow tedious, and taking a break makes a lot of sense. Hell, I play crappy games in order to appreciate better games, I already own.
Granted there are a lot of things that FFIXV ARR could fix, I was not impressed --at all-- with ESO. I think it's just typical fanboy nerdgasming over a name. If it was named Hideous, Buggy, Crash, and Network Port Tinkering: The Game, I doubt people would be drawn to it.
The character creator is pretty beast, though. I'll give them that.