IMO, I think in present MMO market, which there are a lot of games out there, people have less patient to play it.
And if they can't hit lv cap in just 1 month, they might go away and play other game...

The only way to keep players playing MMO is to let them cap very fast, so they can enjoy the end-game contents for a while, or they can enjoy leveling other class.

I think OP must look in the big picture that this game don't have only DoW/M to play.. there are other classes too.. DoH, DoL, ppl can play it for many months before all classes cap.

With introduction to 2.0 and these a lot of contents since Yoshi-P took over the team, it will take new player many months to get everything they need.

Slow leveling kill the game too. no one want to play for 6 month to cap 1 job anymore. Just forget FFXI and enjoy FFXIV at its current state.