I'm sure this has been mentioned hundred of time, but still:

As a new player, I have found that there is SUCH a big pacing issue starting around level 40. I'm doing all the quests and required content (as well as hunting log, optional dungeons, etc), and yet I still have to grind roughly half of each level to continue with the story.

I really love this game, but this pacing issue is a huge killjoy, almost enough to get me to quit playing the game entirely. For a quest based game to have this issue is a really big deal. In a game like FFXI it didn't matter so much, but here it's awful.

I hope to see a revamp of these levels at some point in the future. I wouldn't be surprised if FFXIV has lost a lot of potential subscriptions to this content-lite section of the game. It's really awful.