What is the point of Overworld in the game?

[Jin-]

Let me introduce you to PSO2, the MMO that is a chatroom with a game attached to it...

Jokes aside, would like it if there was a little more to do than fates/gather, tbh. A lot of the overworld feels unexplored, and even then if you gather, you're mostly flying the same 2-3 nodes anyways.

BTW, I've played ESO before and never felt the exploration vibe either, but I also never got too far into it (maybe like level 30 at most), it just kinda felt like I was just doing side quest/main story with very little else to do other than the crafting, but this was back in 2019 so my POV is probably wrong and dated lol. At most the exploration was just finding books/those crystal things I can't remember the name of

So you never found caves and quest started from there? Never found a person who had a letter which started quest or pushed you in to another journey making you forget about the main quest? Never saw something strange on the horizon and going to see what is there and find weird things between or accidentally coming across a tiny village which is under attack?

This is what I'm missing about ffxiv open world. The reason to explore. Bare minimum what makes open world such an awesome playground when done right .