I can safely say that even with you explaining the current content, it is still no where near what pretty much every other MMO offers at release. Most of the things you mention are tedious or shortly lived events with no substance to them.

I don't know about anyone else, but you know what's starting to grind my gears? The completely cryptic updates that might give some interesting insight in to the lore they've created for the game, but utlimately falls on deaf ears because it offers no information on the current standing of updates that are needed for people to keep interest in this game. They've done it throughout FFXI, they tried doing it for FFXIV and every where I go there is a lot of backlash - so why don't SE learn from this feedback?

As much as I want this MMO to succeed, I'm almost starting to become convinced that this game won't go anywhere. Which is really sad for me, since I fell in love with FFXI for 8 years and have not been able to experience that feeling in any other MMO I've played.