FFXIV dungeons are a little bit too linear?

[Galaktica]

You can say you want immersion of whatever, but let's be real. They would need to give people compelling reasons to take alternate routes literally each and every run because it would just devolve into "how fast can we get through this?" over the course of a week at the most. Sure, that doesn't apply to every player, but sadly I'd wager it's applies to enough players to warrant sticking to the status quo.