The tedium and literal empty nontent of experiencing XVI will keep me from perhaps ever returning to it. It's not that the game is empty "looking" or doesn't have "Ubisoft" copy paste side activities
There's just nothing here, period. No worthwhile side rewards to sniff out. No party to manage. No role.
There's literally nothing to do in this massive bloated 100gb game except fighting trash enemies without mechanics and running between the dimly lit cutscenes.
It's like they saw FFXIII's huge mistakes and said "now watch this"

They didn't design a video game world that you traverse or explore in any functional form
The areas don't connect to each other and you are presented with the worldmap when you want to run from area to area
FFXIV, their 15 year old MMO, handles basic area transitions more naturally than this 100 million dollar stink bomb
The jump button doesn't even function to climb onto things outside combat
They made drab uninspired 4K MMO backdrops, and just scattered useless trash everywhere