While I find the initiative from the new dev team an improvement, this does have me worried a bit.

I for one actually like the current zones. They may not be optimal, but I seriously do not find them as horrible as people make them out to be.

I can't help but feel that the humongous effort of redoing zones would be better spent designing and implementing new zones and content. Each of the three starter cities has missing/unimplemented areas. Ishgard. The destroyed Ala Mihgo.
How about other islands and continents, where the races originally came from. There is still no actual content that concentrates on the different races and where they came from. Or the whole system of guardian deities.

I am thankful to see how dedicated the team now is to improve the game. But for those of us who have been playing regularely since release, just redoing all the current content is not enough.

I just honestly feel that the manpower could be used for new content instead of changing the existing zones.
I really do not wish to have to wait more than a year before seeing new zones and areas and experiencing more of the game's story and lore.