Open World FFXIV

[Avoidy]

Black Desert Online did this really well, but it still failed because of corporate greed and incompetent shitdevs. Naturally, the lesson learned from its failure wasn't "don't be a shitdev." Instead, the MMO genre learned that "gAmErS doNt wAnT oPeN wOrLds ackshually" so we'll probably never get anything like that ever again.
XIV is basically a lobby waiting game. You wait in your house or one of the main city states until your content pops in the queue. Then you go to another instance to do it. The game makes money like this and there's no reason to revamp it and take risks to change it. Sure, the overworld is dead, but who cares? The people spending the most money never leave their goonshack anyway.

[Jeeqbit]

XIV is basically a lobby waiting game. You wait in your house or one of the main city states until your content pops in the queue. Then you go to another instance to do it. The game makes money like this and there's no reason to revamp it and take risks to change it. Sure, the overworld is dead, but who cares? The people spending the most money never leave their goonshack anyway.

To be fair, this is intentional due to listening to feedback from 1.0., where people were deeply unhappy at having to travel on foot for hours to get places. The game was remade primarily so it could have a cross-world duty finder, which would pool people from multiple servers together. Teleporting everywhere all the time was done to address the travel complaints. Everything was made ultra quick and convenient because 1.0 tried the opposite and it was a failure.