This is all wrong.

• 1000 hours: If you have a day job and only play a medium amount, I'd say 3 hours with 3 days a week it'd take 2 years to reach 1000 hours. That's about the time an expansion pack comes out and there's new stuff to do.
  • You have to grind: Okay, that's no question. (Being born into a rich family is cheating)
  • Your skills improve slowly: It wouldn't be fun otherwise
  • You realise you messed up picking your class and perks: In better RPGs you can change that
  • You couldn't choose your backstory at all: Not the same, you can do that IRL, in RPGs there's a story for a reason
  • The gameplay is starting to get boring: You're playing the wrong MMOs
  • You can't do anything without elixirs anymore: Is this meant to be coffee? Many people can go with their lives without caffeine. If it's about alcohol or drugs, there's something seriously wrong
  • People are already leaving this server: The closest analogy would be moving from one country to another. Not impossible but isn't meant to be easy either, just like in games
  • The end-game content feels unattainable: What'd be the closest analogy IRL? For example, hobbies aren't unattainable, what else should be end-game?
  • You've accumulated a lot of "inventory" that you rarely use: Skill issue
  • In-game currency is harder to come by than it should be: True a certain extent - like in all places the economy varies from server to server