Same thing again.

[Belauron]

1. Collect aether currents - Be Happy that it's not like WoWs flight, do you want to get every beast tribe to max just to have p1 unlocked.
2. Do enough fates to get increased mount speed. - I found that I did this completely passive and after 30 mins had it unlocked and the gems to buy it, even before coming across the vendor
3. Do quests for the locals to get upgraded gear and aether currents - core element to most games do quest get gear.
4. Deal with the end boss eventually - like every other game in this gen that's ever been made.

How you have changed each zone so they didn't have any of these aspects?

[Liam_Harper]

1. Collect aether currents - Be Happy that it's not like WoWs flight, do you want to get every beast tribe to max just to have p1 unlocked.

Exactly this.

I'm glad FF14 does the same things that work. Unlike WoW which goes "hey, flying seems cool... let's delete it!", "hey, some classes are looking fun, let's re-do them from scratch!", "hey, gearing seems good, let's mega-rng-titanforge it with rng sockets!", "hey that reforge feature seems handy, let's delete it", "hey, apexis and that mission table were very unpopular, we'll double up on that".

You enter a new WoW expansion literally hoping they only wreck your class a little and dreading the fact that literally any feature you enjoy could be removed.

By all means Enix, throw the same enjoyable game at me. I'm fine with that.