Dear Community what even holds you in this game

[Voidmage]

My main anchor is the story.
7.2 was good and showed me that they still can tell a good story if they get slapped in the face a bit and get down of their high horse. A good story makes me want to do quest and all to find out more and keeps me interested.
I also like things like mining to calm down, doing my roulette and just pushing my BLM gameplay even though I have fallen out of love with the raid design.
Then there is my character who after so many years is just important to me and I spend way too much time with glamour.

The game itself is mostly still the old one minus a good amount of the charm points sacrificed for streamlining and over reliance on DDR gameplay as well as an overbearing amount of raiding at the cost of other things right now.

The biggest reason for my dissatisfaction is actually how the community has changed and the devs respond to it.
Instant pulling tanks, a far more arrogant attitude in high end raids or the overly annoying guide war in PF to a point where even blind runs devolve into guide raiding after a few tries because the raids are designed with statics and guides in mind it seems.
Content creators who are so outside of normal reality in their static bubble they have no idea what they are talking about in parts minus a few and the devs completely catering and only listening to them.

Times have changed I guess where streaming and content that is marketable in videos is the most important thing nowadays.
I have honestly fallen out of love with video games as a whole only playing this one and some few others that are not AAA nowadays.

Also hot take but Hrothgar we’re a mistake and should have never been implemented.