I love FFXIV. I play it as much as I can. The answer to ur question is it’s far more than just rdf, GW2 has no rdf and is an equally lovely community. But I don’t play FFXIV -becuase of the queuing system- especially into savage etc. The binding coils felt like a real place but like alphascape didn’t Eden didn’t feel like a real place and asphodel didn’t.
Is this fair? Because of it’s lack of queus it’s classic is like an experience not really found anymore outside of like GW2 which is VERY DIFFERENT in many more fundamental ways, and a significant group of us want to retain that. What blizzard called the “spirit of classic”