I'm enjoying the game as well and having a blast in my Free Company. I first started FFXIV in 2015 after Warlords of Draenor killed the first batch of players (go figure, lol), but I couldn't really get into it and went back to WoW, only finally throwing in the towel when Shadowlands nuked the second batch of players in 2020. It took me a while to like XIV, but I'm glad I gave it another go. This game is amazing; yes, it's not perfect, but they are constantly improving the game, even if it's at a snail's pace, and I'm hoping they can learn from the mistakes made during Endwalker and have the game come out even stronger with the next expansion.

These forums are mainly negative, but so are the official WoW forums. Even when WoW was considered the best in Wrath of the Lich King, the forums were full of complaints all day long. I remember players harassing Ghostcrawler, the lead developer, on the forums too; it was really bad at one point. XIV forums aren't too bad, and the criticism is often more constructive than not, but there is a lot of low-effort trolling, which is still pretty harmless but can get in the way of some good-quality discussion. Oh well, humans aren't perfect, and I hope you can just continue on with the positive vibes and remember that the "negative" posters here are also enjoying themselves by venting about the game, or else they would not be here.