The length of battles, the pace of combat... and the overall feel of combat.

[Jinko]

Disagree.

Battles are quite fun as they are now. Could be improved yes, hopefully one day the silly lag will be gone and WSs won't lock you to the ground, but it is quite good as it is now. I find myself wanting to do Moogles and Ifrits just for the fun of it, even though I need nothing from them.

For the sake of comparison, when I think about dungeons/raids I need nothing from in WoW, I would never want to set foot in them unless some friend really needed me in there...

Yea but NM's and primals are completely different to standard mobs, which is the OP's point isn't it ?