My belief is that if you're not having fun with the game, don't play it. I've played WoW since vanilla and I pretty consistently took entire expansions off any time the game was going a direction I wasn't happy with. There's a literal mountain of other games people can be playing if they're not enjoying FF14. And even if you remove new games that just came out or are about to come out, I bet most of us have a significant backlog we haven't touched because we were playing FF14. I wasn't enjoying the latter half of Endwalker so I took time off and played a ton of amazing games instead. (Rise of the Ronin, Shadow of the Erdtree, FF7R, Stellar Blade, Lies of P, and Monster Hunter Stories were all great uses of my time) I came back for DT and I've been enjoying the fight design in DT, so I'm having fun again.