So, how is Pagos?

[Shurrikhan]

The problem is they are using all the bad things from ffxi and completely ignoring all the things they got incredibly right. I think any ffxi player, myself included, will tell you that.

This. I'm no huge fan of XI, but any hat-tip XIV makes to XI in its gameplay is generally alike to handing someone an exposed high-speed fan when they mention that maybe planes fly well and maybe turbines play a part in that. Yes, just the fan, somehow uncontainable, and ready to eat fingers. No wings, no fuselage.

It reminds me of the WoW developer comment that "Class armor tier set effects are inherently dull, so we've scrapped them," despite that they had only just stooped to dull set effects with that very expansion. "Poisoning the chalice" so to speak.

Give someone the worst of something they've asked for and maybe they'll stop asking for it, or anything for that matter... Fair enough, but it won't be due to a mistrust of the spirit of the original -- only the borrower's ability in implementation.