To the op you can keep your sense of adventure since the aggro icon will be able to toggled off/on. I can understand exactly how you feel but for this game to succeed it needs to to give direction to help casuals(which will make up most of the playerbase). However for the Hardcore players SE will need to have party content the main source of xp with challenging content.

SE themselves have a great challenge trying to balance XIV for the Hardcores and Casuals. There will need to be some middle ground for this to happen. Both sides will have to accept there will be things they don't like about some of SE decisions.