Music

[Impulse]

I fully agree with the OP. Uematsu hasn't provided the same quality of work we can see in FFXI. Pretty music doesn't mean fitting music. I play with the BGM completely off, as i prefer the game's SFX sounds to its boring tracks.

Uematsu barely had anything to do with XI's music, aside from the base game. Everything else was Naoshi Mizuta.
Unfortunately, Nobuo was rushed on the music much like near everything else in this game. A lot of the time he was simply given a single image to work with.