It's not the RNG, its the implementation of the system

[Lollerblades]

Unlike XIV the REMA in XI are worth your time investment. The weapons aren't replaced by a new expansion.

[MicahZerrshia]

Unlike XIV the REMA in XI are worth your time investment. The weapons aren't replaced by a new expansion.

It's REMAP now too since they added Prime weapons, and even in their 25 year old game they were still able to make it more engaging than whatever they were doing here.

We have FATEs and spawnable CEs. I don't know why they removed roaming hunts - probably because people ignored them in Bozja.
The complexity of spawning NMs didn't continue from Eureka because clearly it was unpopular and nobody except me hardly spoke positively about Eureka in Stormblood. Ultimately we are in this boat because SE listened to these forums and look where it got us - I hope everyone's happy with it since they asked for it to be dumbed down like this.
Looting gear was also a problem in Eureka. It was rare to get and really just an annoyance since you could do Eureka for years and not get it. A currency prevents those issues.

All this tells me is that you never played Abyssea content in FFXI so you don't really know what you are comparing, but you are doing so anyway while making excuses for reasons.

[Jeeqbit]

All this tells me is that you never played Abyssea content in FFXI

I didn't. I was going by your description.