World of Warcraft died because the developers only catered to casuals and world prog

[Ronduwil]

Wrong, daily world quests reward gear around your ilvl to help your progress, as well as anime for cosmetics and a upgradable gear set.

Only if you're in quest blues. When I unsubbed, the best gear that you could buy from the daily world quest vendors wasn't even as good as covenant gear. The stuff that the world quests offered wasn't even as good as that.

You can craft every pet from previous expansions in WoW and legendary pieces with effects that change your classes game play some. FFXIV you craft the BIS entry raid set making all the gear you obtain up to that point obsolete. Both have problems.

We clearly disagree on what is and isn't a problem. Being able to craft the BIS entry raid set is the way it should be, IMO. I'm sure that many players will agree with me on that. It's the entire reason that crafting remains relevant. As for being able to craft pets from previous expansions, I'm talking about now. There are no new pets to craft now. I never said that crafting was always garbage in WoW. I'm saying that it's currently garbage because they actively reduce its relevance every expansion. The fact that you can only craft pets from older expansions is a case in point.

Sure anything below Mythic+ is faceroll easy and awards garbage gear, but look at FFXIV 90% of the content you run is faceroll easy and rewards garbage gear.

But the faceroll easy content in FFXIV also awards tomestones that you can use to buy good gear. That's a huge difference. WoW doesn't even allow you to buy stuff from the currency vendor for doing any form of content below M+.

FFXIV pets are pretty pointless too

And their acquisition reflects that. You don't have to engage in months of pet battles just to buy one pet. You don't have to roam around the overworld for hours picking fights with every pet in a given zone in the hopes of having the RNG to collect a rare pet. You don't have to evolve your pets to make them usable in the Gold Saucer minion battles. You just do whatever content awards a given minion, and you're done. Pets in FFXIV are cosmetics. They're not a Pokemon simulator like in WoW.

The devs are happy, but the game is very unrewarding. I should not have to run the normal mode raid for 2 months to get the only weapon upgrade outside of savage raid and that's just one example.

Why not? Why do you need better than a 580 weapon right away if you're not doing savage raids? The fact that it's even available to you at all for normal mode raiding already makes this game way better than WoW for casuals. In WoW, there's just no upgrade for you outside of Heroic/Mythic raiding and/or M+ dungeons. In this game, you're complaining that you're having to grind through normal mode raids to get your upgrade. I only wish I could have been so lucky in WoW.