You interest me, Gifthorse. It's such a strange mixture of good questions and QQ.

I appreciate Yoshida-san's open lines of communication, so I do hope he gives a casual interview like this a shot one day. He usually talks to people with agenda - websites, magazines, etc. I think it'd be great for FFXIV's image he he fielded some very open questions like this - because however much unjustified negativity and fearmongering you've got going on about content you've yet to experience well enough to evaluate, you're right that the vision of what we can expect the soul of XIV to be has become blurry.