Basically everything you said. I play on a PVP server because well, I think it's silling to run around in open world holding hands with the enemy. A lot of the time I'll ignore enemy players but the option, the realism, of being able to attack or being attacked at any time is liberating.
But yeah, I love the class stories. They're incredible and really everything I wanted for the different "headcanon" stories I've invented for them, so I like to capture them. Little offtopic here I suppsoe but it would be nice if they could offer some way to revisit stories