Playing it and going through first expansion. Is a good game gameplay wise, race & profession design is well done, and story wise is acceptable (But looks like it will get worse, but the game having mediocre story is a fact almost all players both old & new agree), have horizontal progression so no need to get ascended armor to do raids & dungeons, and is an MMO with no subs and only need to buy expansions, with game store for cosmetics and some QoL things.
At least is better than World of Warcraft.

I found an old gw2 meme. :)