XI had their MMO fanbase, so they were trying to migrate those folks over to this shiny new theme park they're building. Unfortunately, it was all of the original's worst points and then some, and the bad outweighed the good. The result: the realm gets reborn in 2.0 to give it a clean slate and an entirely new outlook. I'm expecting it to end up being only superficially similar to XI in 2.0.