I agree that the teleporting back and forth thing is tedious and not very exciting. I don't really like games that make you go back and forth much and think of it as "filler" content or rather fake game time content. But I disagree and enjoyed the politics and other aspects of the quest-line to be interesting. It was like game of thrones in a sense, just not as well written but SE doesn't have the budget for that kind of production anyway. I've played many MMO's and FF14 is the one with the best story out of them in my opinion. I know there are people who don't care about the story or lore, just want to speed run dungeons, I'm not one of those people. But the story does keep getting better and better =)