It's funny.

[AryaUnderfoot]

It is not that Abyssea is considered bad in itself, but that it was a 180 on the previous content. Old players that played it for years before Abyssea dislike it because it invalidated all their "hard work". It's more of a selfish "Why should he get to max level so quickly, when I needed 2 years to max my first job? Why should he get gear so easily, when I had to slave away for weeks for 1 piece of gear?". It wasn't really even made for the old players but for new - new players would give up quickly before it because they had no chance of catching up.

You don't have that here. It's a new game and leveling doesn't take a year - it never did, so no reason to be jelous or angry. Also long grindy leveling process =/= hard game.

As for learning your class, class quests do teach you that. Too bad people don't really bother to read what and why they need to do. You have a bunch of dungeons til 50 where you need to learn your role. Ever did Stone vigil or Brayflox with a tank who didn't know his role or a healer that would sit on his hands? Exactly. The game teaches you but some players don't want to learn.