I like the FF jobs (as in the series), I think the visuals (meaning graphics and locations) are great, and I love the music. I mostly also quite enjoy the story, but SE should be careful with that one because it's easy to mess up. I think graphics and music are easier to just go "yeah that's good" vs the story where you got wrapped up in your own smell and find out later everyone else thinks it stinks.

I can definitely say I have had a growing apathy that I can partly attribute to age with the game, but I feel I can strongly attribute to the void of quality roleplay and in fact loss of it as the game gets older (it doesn't improve... somehow it gets worse!). It got bad enough I tried WoW again (in a non-demo format), first time in a decade. My god the things I've been saying I feel are missing, are absolutely missing from this game (because those are the things WoW tends to do much better). Also sucks because a lot of the stuff I feel I've suggested here I'm seeing actively done over there now and I feel like "yep.. that was fun, too bad 10 years ago FFXIV didn't beat you to it".

So I do have a mounting negative feeling, and I feel semi-confident it is not exclusively due to too much familiarity but I am cautious that some of it might be.

I still 'want' to want to play this game, but when one game is doing it better and the other looks like it has its finger up its nose and thinking about eating the booger (hyperbole sure but it's the "feeling" of what is going on). ... It honestly makes you a little sad, when you've been with it so much too. So probably also with the game as a component of sunk cost lol.