I may be in the minority in liking LoV, but I know a lot of people liked chocobo racing especially after levelling was made more reasonable. The racing area was packed for the entirety of the gold saucer event on my server, and there's still some people playing even now. It's not entirely clunky once you get used to the lane change system and get a good chocobo. My bird right now glides through the courses. I just wish there were more maps.