Is anyone actually enjoying the game?

I'll start by saying this: Please don't misconstrue this as a post where I complain about the game. I've been on a break since the launch of Dawntrail and want to come back. I'm asking the title's question in ernest.

I was originally fully on-board for Dawntrails launch. I was ready to marathon the story and get through it in a day or two and then contenue playing whatever I felt like from there, but then my guild fell apart.

A few people quit because they felt burnt out, and I understood that. A lot of them had joined the game during the WoW exodus and had marathon'd the whole 300+ hour story all the way to the end of Endwalker. They said Endwalker was a satisfying ending and didn't want to jump to the next chapter. Cool.

Then about a week before I started my break, while I was procrastinating starting Dawntrail because I wanted to pick a new main job for the x-pack, a lot of talk surrounding how bad Dawntrail was started popping up every where I looked.

It was on Reddit, Twitter, 4chan, my guild's Discord server. If I was on a form of social media and FFXIV could be talked about there, it was filled with doom posts.

And I got tired of it. I took a break.

I'm wanting to come back to the game, but I'm seeing those same exact posts every where I look. It feels like nothing's changed and the attitude against the game has only gotten stronger.

Am I just in a negative bubble here?