The people fighting OP are not adding anything productive to this thread. Square Enix is not some struggling, indie company that needs to be white knighted. If you love a game then the best thing that you can do for it is to be open to criticism. That's how games improve. If people hadn't complained about 1.0 we would have never gotten ARR.

How OP feels about the MSQ is completely irrelevant to whether or not they should be playing FFXIV because the story is only a small portion of the game. Acting like the MSQ is the only thing this game has to offer does a huge disservice to a game that bursting with content.

To OP: don't devote every day to story quests. mix things up.
here are some things you can do on days you don't work on story:
- unlock POTD. it can get challenging once you go past the 100th floor and the rewards are good
- do roulettes, dungeons
- fight the arr extremes (the drop mounts)
- unlock the arr raids
- try out alt jobs
- check out gathering/crafting to see if you like it (crafting requires a gil investment if you dont have gatherers leveled)
- play gold saucer mini games
- collect minions
- join linkshells to make friends and help them when needed/do content with them
- check out housing