Forced to Raid?

[RukoBoshi]

While I won't judge anyone for their choices in regards to how they play the game I am curious about something.
If your objective is to play a totally solo experience why would you pick FFXIV for it and not something of a similar scale that's also created from the ground up to be single player, since as an MMO XIV still has to make a lot of compromises that others wouldn't have to.
What advantages does it have over something like, say, Xenoblade?

Purely for the story in my case. This is the only thing i took into consideration before starting the game.
Not the gameplay, not the mechanics or endgame content and not the multiplayer aspect.

I just wanted to play through one of the only two mainline FF i didn't play yet.
Lots of people in the Final Fantasy community were recommending FFXIV and saying it has one of the best FF story. That was enough of an incentive to start.