As much as I love the beautiful words Kotoshi finds for us, Blarp is right xD
I experienced exactly what he said waaaay too many times in other MMORPGs to not know he's right.
And even though I didn't rub it the new players in the face, by myself I thought:
"I had to bear a time when there were no quests."
"I played this game when it took you months to reach lvl 70 because all you could ever do was grinding, since there was no content at all, and now you do it in 3 days with all your petty exp scrolls and stuff."
"I was already a healer when there was no equipment for healers at all and no auto-heal and I kept people alive by actually PLAYING and concentrating for hours!"
Well, stuff like that
And I just KNOW I'll be thinking the same when FFXIV2.0 hits the servers.