Is farming material with botanist/miner/fisher for crafting considered an alive open world? I always farm my mats every 2 day at least and i always see at least other people doing it, sometimes even more than 3 or 4 even 5 people, well it looks lively enough for me, and when the new patch that introduce new crafting for gear appear, the amount of people farming can be more than an alliance raid, looks lively enough for me as farmer

Also the amount of people doing treasure map also quite many, my FC also doing it weekly, we all love Gil afterall

The reason why world map is empty in any MMO nowadays is not about the content, its because of duty roullete and dungeon finder or any other easier/faster access to get to somewhere, remove them and you will see everyone have to walk or fly to get to their instance/destination, there, a very lively world map, but who have time for that nowadays