You realize.. You could literally idle in Abyssea and get to cap level before the end of a day, yeah? The majority of people who got to cap via Abyssea on all their jobs just ran around with some keys and opened treasure chests. Literally, that's it. Easy or not, you actually have to PLAY this game to hit 50.. so you need at least SOME semblance of an idea as to how your class works to get there, unlike post-abyssea XI where you quite literally didn't need to know jack-shit about your job to get it to 99.

Don't go barking about 1-30 either, since Grounds of Valor let you get to 30 retardedly fast too.. undergeared too. Hell I'd usually see people doing this naked. Plus Abyssea gave you cruor, in insane bulk, which meant you could buy your starter gear for endgame right off.. Likewise some of your final AF could actually be quest-farmed if you could be arsed to do that. And none of those quests had required battles, unless you counted Bastion which you just needed to whack a mob in and not die for 30 seconds while they broke the nexus and you got half or all of the points you needed and could leave.. didn't even need to KILL anything there.. tedious to do it that way, sure, but people did it anyway. You literally could be setup for the end in most every way without even killing a single mob yourself.. lol..

This game isn't comparable to THAT.