I unsubbed after playing the final bit of MSQ before the Stormblood expansion, because the story just felt like nonsense. I thought it was dumb that one of my favorite characters suddenly became an entirely different person that I found grating, and I thought it was dumb that the Alliance was going to full-on enter into a war just because of a single false-flag operation. I had found the writing and story in the lead-up quests to be agonizing to get through, and I didn't have the appetite to stomach any more of it. I recognized that I wasn't enjoying my time with the game, so I unsubscribed.

A few years later, I just started wanting to play the game again. I didn't expect the story to be any better, but I just missed being my character and doing the boss fights. And as luck would have it, a few weeks later Shadowbringers released...and while it was a mental struggle to get through Stormblood (I refused to skip it because I wanted to know the lore), it was so worth it to reach the other side and get to experience the chef's kiss of Shadowbringers. And since then, I've stuck around because I enjoy playing the game, even if Dawntrail's writing was nearly as poor as Stormblood's at some points. I'm enjoying the Arcadion, and hopefully future MSQ updates will demonstrate that they've learned something from 7.0's mistakes.