Open world PvP Zone

[Geryth]

Considering this game has some serious issues with generating content, yes.

You can not be serious. The one thing FFXIV does a lot better than WoW is it has much more meaningful and fun content aside from combat and gear grabbing. There is so much to do, the people who get bored after an increase in content are living in a single-minded objective and ignore most of the other things there are to do in this game.

And there has been some serious argument about things like squadrons and lord of verminion distracting dev time from making good pve content.

"Good" is subjective and FFXIV is hitting the wall where all new PvE content starts to feel the same, since it's been out a few years now. If new content is feeling stale, it's because it's stale - it has nothing to do with resources working on other projects. It's the side content that really keeps the game interesting with things to do, while the newest PvE content is really the same content behind new boss names and shiny things to wear.