Yeah. It seemed like an actual MMO that cared for its world too and had a vision and drive with the devs.
FFXIV is starting to become more flash without substance.
Its basically a case of art with drive VS drive to sell things as a business as painless and streamlined as possible. Unless there is a riot in both JP and Western playerbase. They wont change diddly squat nor stop just inserting anything from Gundams to Cyberpunk into the game