Yeah, I agree. Even if I do hunts, maps (which I enjoy), and boring 'ol fates with the same 'ol music, there still needs to be more to help make it's world more immersive. That's all the OP really wants, but for some reason people think what they're asking for is so terrible and focusing on how they called the world empty. I would take less zones in an expansion if it meant filling up the ones we already have with more lore and stuff to do, either way. It doesn't even need to be content that's designed specifically for the maps themselves, even. Just give people more to do in general that allows them to go to old maps that isn't just more damn fate grinding.

It's kind of the same issue I have with being told to just play another job when I want a little extra survivability or something. The jobs aren't just roles to me they're my character's "identity". I don't want to go from, say, a summoner to a fencing mage just to make my heal not shit. I don't think most people really get that. I hate job-hopping. It's an immersion killer. Bozja/Zadnor has been a godsend for me with all of it's CE's/Bosses, Raids, it's Merit system after rank 25, it's Lost Actions, etc.