I have enjoyed pretty much everything with XIV for years. The only thing I am not a big fan of has been PVP, and the Baldesion Arsenal. Though the BA was more playerdriven and their behaviour that made me avoid doing it.
Another thing that annoys me, is just how many demands some players put out, and if their demands are not met to 100% it is nothing but complaints

I love the enthusiasm of Yoshida and his whole team, as I have not seen many if any other devteam acting like they are and I do not wanna loose that
XIV means a lot to me just like many other FF games ^^

XIV just has such great devteam, Jobs, music, story, characters, worlddesign, raids, dungeons, crafting and so much more (except pvp) hehe

I started playing XIV in 1.15 and I was actually not aware of its poor launch and wondered why didnt my VISA not get charged when my 30 days incl playtime was up hehe
When they announced 1.0 was shutting down to remake the game, and they have delivered on their words, they made me a life long supporter of XIV and SE itself if they continue as they have