What we have learned...

[Reynhart]

Lately however, I feel like the dev team is beginning to repeat the 1.0 mistake - they think we'll play and keep on playing whatever poorly designed content they give us just because we are so loyal to the FF14's name.

Frankly, I'd say they only repeat 2.x mistakes. Having such a predictable and rigid content pacing prevents them from doing anything "new" (In regards to FFXIV, not necessarily new to MMOs), and remove any involvement you have in builing your gear, since you know it will be crap 6 months later.

SE took a flawed MMO "with heart and soul" and made it a successful bland fast-food game.