The 2.0 players won't refer to any of us as anything special. Why? Same reason nobody praises those of us who were in the first few shells to kill Dynamis Lord when he was actually hard. Same reason nobody praises vanilla WoW players. There's no point. If anything, it will be derogatory since XIV 2.0 looks far better than anything introduced so far.

They've been making good changes, but still, new players starting in 2.0 will just think, "God, how could they have played this when it was crap?" That's regardless of whether YOU personally think it's crap or not, before the endless, "FFXIV isn't crap," posts start.