I agree with the OP. SE has had plenty of time to deal with crap like this.
It's restricted only to NA and EU servers
I saw at least 2 messages saying something along the lines of "instance servers aren't working for NA/EU servers. We're working on it." - No you're not, if you were working on it I'd be reading that message in the forums because you'd already shut down the servers.

I paid good money for this game, money that I work hard for. I don't have all the time in the world to sit around and wait for servers to come up, and I'm certainly not going to just roll another character on a JP server.

If my performance at work sucks, I get shit for it. Well, SE, here's your shit. Open beta was more successful than your early access launch. If this is how our relationship is going to be, it'll be a short one.

Hope you're enjoying FFXIV, all you JP players. Do us a favor and let us know how much fun you're having.