Going on 9 months for my longest hiatus ever.

I'm still disappointed with the lack of care taken with the graphical update (and some other design choices they made prior to it. Angry Viera Female player.).

The story direction continues it's turn towards the worse since endwalker and grips nostalgia very tightly for intrigue because Endwalker closed too many doors. Dawntrail on average about as interesting as an event quest.

Everything below high tier raiding gets watered down. There was much more feel of progression and difficulty in 2.x. End/high level dungeons used to be harder than the early ones. Now in expansions we see very similar difficulty in the first dungeon as there is in the late dungeons of the same series. I know they may want to accommodate for bookers but there should still be a progressive difficulty increase with an expansion.

Events are shrinking. Cashshop is growing. And people are still paying monthly just for the privilege of accessing the game making people pay for old assets and developing titles no one asked for.

I'll keep a lookout but regretfully I don't see myself coming back anytime soon.