The game needs to open up

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Makes sense. Although the no quest marker, while true of older games, was mostly taken from Elden ring in my case, a modern success story. Questing in that game was not easy but people seemed to love the game for it.

It's also a very different type of game. You don't see people saying xiv should adopt the much fewer button attack rotations of Elden ring.