What you are describing sounds nice but I don't see it. We've mostly only seen the forest and to me it looks like the same style in graphics. I can't wait to see some imagination in the world as promised by the jaw-droppingly gorgeous concept art. Is that what you mean by cartoony?

Btw I hate it when concept art with lineart is said to be cartoony. Do you people realize how much time is saved when concept art isn't finished to pr-material level? That way we get to do 10 times more art and help visual design all over the game instead of having one spot that looks awesome and having to tell the 3d guys to copy-paste that stuff to rest of the game.

To me it's the original idea that matters and I think XIV art AND ARR-art (don't you just love the way that sounds?) look awesome.

Anyway if you meant that the new grid looks cartoony then I don't know what to say.