I don't think I'd mind the "just look at the map" so much if I felt like the game was actually trying to kick my ass... it feels like it wants to me to succeed.

But I would like some more difficult quests where the quest giver doesn't know the EXACT coordinates of where I need to go... Something between XIV and XI... some of the quests in the latter were so directionless that you essentially had to go to the wiki.