Since this thread seems to be coming from a place of genuine curiosity, and getting honest replies that aren't GO WOKE GO BROKE TRANNY PANDERING SHITFEST!!11!1!

Yeah. Im just going to echo what's been said so far. Gameplay is the basic MMORPG tab-target gameplay. It's been done, redone, and redone, but at this point you simply can not re-create the wheel. It is what it is. But that isn't the main drive of the game, as many anons have already said. Heavensward is where FF14 takes off into it's own. Characters become far more fleshed out, the story begins to finally coalesce, character interactions actually begin to make a lot more sense, history begins to be explained about why the world is the way it is, and from that point the game become a storytelling titan.

But if you aren't willing to wait, and if it is taking too much time for you to make any significant progress due to real life shit getting in the way, or if you're just that impatient then I doubt that any reasonable person would fault you for dropping it wherever you are now. I'd suggest sticking with it, I think it's a phenominal story and has one of (if not the) best antagonists in a video game I've seen in the past 20 years. The kind where they won't fight you. They'll walk with you, be cordial, try to get to know you, and even be incredibly friendly even though they see you as their adversary just to try and get you to see their side of things or to explain it in terms that ultimately you can not deny outright.

Give it some time if you can, drop it if you can't. I'd personally prefer the former since it worthwhile to experience.