[Feedback] Character Development and Builds

[Nurvus]

I find that blizzard has never had PvP and PvE balanced.

They have a lot more mobility, CC and complicated effects available in PvP. It's not really a fair comparison.
At this point only PvE is worth comparing.

A huge difference is racial abilities which make it hard to balance around already (they should get rid of them).

Not really. The racials add flavor and can easily be balanced (without making them dull or homogenized).
Blizzard is just not even trying to balance them properly. Perhaps they are afraid people stop paying for race changes.

In many cases one of those branches is a PvP focused like frost mage. Other times one tree is just better out right. Then come comparing lets go with tanks, druid bear form still is very weak, the DK tank form has always had balance problems., etc.

First, the game is balanced enough that only high end competitive guilds really notice those differences.
Furthermore, those differences are largely influenced by the poor itemization the game has - the gear scales up exponentially, and so fast, that it causes classes to be balanced at a certain point and under/overperform before/after that point.

Saying blizzard has done a good job with balance is a bit far fetched they have been dumbing down the skill trees since WotLK to try to have less variables to balance. Even now FF14 is seeing balance issues that need fixing right now, adding choice seems like it will just make it longer for the FF14 team to balance which I am not a fan of.

Considering the fact they have over 10x as many builds to "balance" than SE does, yeah, they're doing a great job, because WoW isn't far behind in balance comparing to FFXIV.
In WoW people "pick the best builds". And there are at dozens of "best builds".
FFXIV has 13 builds and they are picked for you.

In terms of subscriptions, this game will do fine for people who enjoy having a single character.
But for altoholics, it may quickly lose its appeal.

Combat and class design are the only things FFXIV is still behind WoW (in my opinion).
If SE steps up to the challenge, the game will flourish in a way Blizzard would never see it coming.