FFXIV is great. It starts off slow with a bad cliché story but once you get to the first expansion, Heavensward, it becomes a masterpiece. It's a pretty easy game and most of it feels like a basic IQ test but it's somehow still really fun. Don't get me started on all the misc stuff you can do, I'd have to write pages. It's very comfy and immersive
The only downside I can think of is that it's filled with coomer trannies and if you make your toon female you're going to get harass DMs from trannies looking to ERP
Also what
>>16941 said about endgame bossing and raiding is true. I like figuring things out by myself without the use of guides or spoilers but endgame bossing is impossible to do without said guides because nobody will accept you into their group unless you join a group of players who play at set times on set days but for me that sucks too because I don't play games to adhere to schedules like I'm at work
The other MMORPG I'd suggest is Oldschool Runescape. It's like a very interactive idle game whose design has something comparable to one of those old text adventures. It's very hard to explain or compare to anything, it'd be easier to just give it a try (you can play it for free with majority of content locked behind a subscription fee). Don't touch Runescape 3 because that one is more reminiscent of a chinese mobile game