Okey, i will answer you with the most respect i can muster:
The heck?
Dude, you get gear on every corner, the msq involves every dungeon of the expansion and every trial, okey good you dont get shit in the trials because you run it with randoms... but you get gear with the msq so i call BS on your whole rant.
AND: HOW DARE YOU TO INSULT THE STORY!
In FF14 i cried because of the story... well okey i also cried because of WoW's Story, but that time it was more a "oh god who did shit in the brains of the devs." kind of way. In FF14 the tears were real.