I agree with a lot of what the OP is saying here. To me, the Role Quests seem extremely samey down to the point where the healer and physical DPS person could have been the same character personality for the most part. The tank one seems refreshingly different personality wise at least, so that's a plus... but I really wanted to punch the healer and the phys dps NPCs. The level 80 job quests were a joke, plain and simple.

Healer balance is.... laughable and, TBH the healer jobs just aren't that fun to play anymore. With button bloat always thinning our skills (not just healers) I feel the game gets even more dull with each expansion in terms of what each job does at various levels. And when you have to level sync to earlier content.... man it hurts. Trusts feel extremely grindy for little benefit from what I can tell so far and I'm just getting them all to 73 so I can get into the next dungeon after running the 71 dungeon like 18 times over various classes. Trusts seem to have a choreographed order for which they kill mobs in and I really wish I could change it, affect it some how, or at least they would use some AoEs. Those stupid gremlins with the slow in the 71 dungeon are super aggrivating especially since they seem to be targeted last for some reason.

The plot I felt was super predictable. And while I did like it, I felt that the predictability and lack of any surprise when it seemed like I was supposed to be surprised distracted me a lot. The roleplay duty as thancred, I'm sorry to say, was boring AF. As are each of the once in the Role Duties so far. I renew my request to be able to skip those.

On the other hand, I really like the dungeon boss fights and I felt Eden was pretty decent aside from a few fights (2 and 4) mainly, but my complaints about those are fairly minor overall, they just drop the enjoyment for me personally. I don't know if I will stick with 5.0 yet or not, so far I am satisfied enough, but I have a feeling I will not be continuing to 6.0 unless something amazing happens in game between then and now. I just feel the quality of the game overall keeps getting worse and worse. And I just can't be confident that the devs have my interests in mind simply because I feel our interests/ideas of fun are too different at this point.