I have played Eve Online so many hours, and it’s a bad game. Don’t do it. you will spend hundreds of hours dreaming about the cool thing you’ll do later, but for 99% of players the cool thing will never happen. You will be part of the one percent’s cool thing.
Do you have a similar game?
Stockholm syndrome, sunk cost fallacy. You start a game because you think it might be fun, then after a while you realise you’ve played quite a lot and are still yet to have fun. Now you’re in a habit of playing either still hoping it gets good soon, or fooling yourself that you are enjoying it.
This is my experience with FFXIV.