I'm fairly certain you are mistaken about people complaining about the game being "challenging."

A game can be challenging and still be good. The challenge must come from playing the game, however; fighting monsters, accomplishing goals, gathering others for large scale events. If these things are a challenge because you have to think or have good reflexes or something relating to the player's abilities that's fine.

A miserable UI that takes 3-5 button presses to accomplish what any other MMO could do in a single key or click? Monsters that wander off randomly in mid combat for no good reason and regen large chunks of hp? Crafting that puts you to sleep in spite of being touted as a major element of the game on par with combat classes? Ridiculous lag time when doing anything at all with your inventory? You can call these challenges while others would call them needless exercises in frustration.

You may enjoy FFXIV, and that's fine. You cannot, however, argue that the opinion of people who play WoW is unfounded. It is very quickly apparent that the very framework of XIV is severely lacking and has managed to fail to implement even the most basic of elements that people have come to expect from modern MMOs. I would advise against referring to detractors as any form of "tards" while you're busy playing month 2 of your free "please baby one more chance" trial.

Maybe you'll get lucky and the patch later this month will fix the long, long list of problems with this game. I'd be all for that. Only time will tell. In the meantime, enjoy your fully unfounded ROFLing.