Old FFXI Vs New FFXI

People who have been a part of the FFXI community since either the beginning or near the beginning, how do you feel about the game today in comparison to when it first came out?

I have read comment's where people bash abyssea saying its "broken FFXI", and "no one wants to level in normal parties anymore because abyssea has no cap (making abyssea 70+)"

(now these aren't my words, im neutral and just want my af3+2 and to have fun lol)

I would personally out of sheer curiosity like to see what the FFXIAH community thinks, old school to new, is the game broken now?
how would you fix it if you could sit the dev team down n give em a piece of your mind.