The reason why FFXIV is so boring and not fun to play anymore is because

[Hallarem]

One thing I wish they stop doing is drip feeding the little content we got this patch over the course of 4.5 months. Waiting a month for a single hildibrand crafter/gatherer role quest and a weekly crafting/gathering npc to level crafters and chaotic alliance raid isn't enough to last 3 more months until 7.2. And wish they provided more in the first patch of an expansion instead of just a weekly alliance raid and a bunch of weeklies/dailies that are done in 5 minutes once people are done with doing that stuff and getting what they want from it there is hardly any reason to do them once finished.

Unlike other MMO's. FFXIV suffers from its open world being a backdrop for gathering, hunts and fates.

The mobs are a joke, you cant farm them for rare drops, rare zone drops, rare world drops, ingredients, exp, the quests are just tiny lorebits instead of giving exp or anything meaningful or area related glams. Theres no giant questlines that end in a secret boss.

[Nebelheim]

Unlike other MMO's. FFXIV suffers from its open world being a backdrop for gathering, hunts and fates.

The mobs are a joke, you cant farm them for rare drops, rare zone drops, rare world drops, ingredients, exp, the quests are just tiny lorebits instead of giving exp or anything meaningful or area related glams. Theres no giant questlines that end in a secret boss.

It would be nice if they did more with the openworld and various other aspects of the game to make it feel more like an mmo rather then a glorified lobby and give us more of a reason to leave limsa.

[Eyrilona]

I get the feeling that if they could be farmed for good stuff, it would just increase the already large amount of bots, or how if the Yo-Kai Watch events are anything to go by every year, it would become a source of endless "screw you, got mine" griefing by other players.

There are ways to do a lively open world right, but FFXIV has made so many design choices already that are not compatible with it, anything we propose for it now is going to be riddled with issues.