I agree that guildleves are dumb, but hopefully they are moving away from it. Although, i am not really worried about all this stuff until they can fix the servers, no content is worth it until the game is fluid. I treat everything as a filler right now, they are just eye-candy and short-lasting.

No, i cant name any upcoming special feature (maybe materia, but its enchanting system really lol), but opinion like "How do you feel the world as a whole?", it will be probably better to ask people that havent touch this game before. We might felt there isnt much because we've experienced the old contents, for newcomer they might get overwhelmed with the content we currently have.