I'm not interested in WoW's aesthetic or the type of players that it would appeal to.

It's too complicated for new players to get into by all accounts, which is why it's riddled with veterans who know how to play it.

Despite how WoW players have talked up the graphics and even dared to say they are better than FFXIV... I am not impressed by any video I've seen of it.

A lot of the time-wasting mechanisms in MMORPGs were nerfed or removed in FFXIV and while they still exist, it's casual enough that I can stop and eat food whenever I want and I don't have this "can't eat or look after myself for several hours" issue that MMORPGs used to give me. I don't expect that level of casualization in other MMORPGs.