Player Drop Off and Accessibility/Diffculty

[Absurdity]

In particular, I had been playing two other MMO's recently, Mabinogi and Blue Protocol, which have "autopathing" for quests. In a game with FFXIV's story length, I believe it should have autopathing options, additionally Blue Protocol had an auto-battler option... I do not believe XIV should have an auto-battle option, but it should have "easy mode" toggle for story MSQ battles/dungeons and as much other content as possible.

I'd rather they create some interesting objectives and maybe combine storytelling with actual gameplay (you know, like a videogame), instead of implementing mobile game nonsense like auto pathing as a bandaid to the tedious "go to X and talk to Y"-quests that take up 70% of the MSQ.