It was fun for the first few months but I let my sub expire this past weekend. 2.1 brought many new wonders and fixes to FFXIV, but not the correct ones to earn my money. I enjoyed the Crystal Tower mechanics and style greatly, in spite of SE's inability to program proper same server alliance capabilities and confounding and backwards looting system. Several of the fights were unique and showed great promise for the future of the game's combat. However with the limited and lower item level loot the instance only really serves as a means to gear up alternate jobs or min/max a certain stat. This being the only content released in 2.1 resembling anything close to end game, is ultimately useless to players that already have sets of alagan/AF2. I personally didn't have a full set but with the pieces of AF2/CT gear i obtained after spending my saved up myth tomes i never felt like i was able to do anything that I couldn't do before in full DL.
I am by no means a hardcore player, however i did devote a good deal of time to this game. I had the 5 jobs I liked at 50 along with all cross class abilities unlocked and 4 full DL sets. 2.1 provided a lot of improvements to leveling and dungeons, however these are all pretty much useless to me now. I also put a great deal of time into leveling crafts right after launch which provided very little return beyond useless gil. Now they have added nigh unobtainable housing to finally make all of that useless gil feel like it's worth something and expect it to be the current "end game". For players that play a lot and do coil productively every week i can't imagine that there is much reason to engage in all of the new content beyond simply doing it. I know I can't be the only person that feels like it is all overly pointless to do more than a couple times/to help someone else.
These issues aren't a problem for new/more casual gamers that are just hitting 50. They will be able to fully appreciate SE's effort aimed toward them. For someone like myself, there just isn't enough meaningful or advancing content to warrant my subscription. After having played WoW's endgame for so long and growing tired of it, I simply can't bring myself to continue that path with a single instance for the next 3-4+ months. This game has a great foundation, however it lacks meaningful content to satisfy my discerning tastes. I expect this game to be quite solid once SE stops playing catchup, however until then I will simply have to sit out and wait for content to catch up with me.
I post this not to get the inevitable rise from the fanboys that say varying forms of "good riddance", but to see how others that have progressed as much/more than i have in the game feel about all of the horizontal progression instead of vertical progression. Do you think that the game will continue to hold your unwavering interest for several more months?