Wow, you were all over the place.  I do agree 100% with you.  Just about every one of the mentioned games has that level treadmill that I finally just got totally disgusted with.  For me it was Everquest, DAoC and WoW.  I'm currently playing WoW, but these days I'll log in, wander around for 5 minutes and log out.  I probably won't even be reupping the account for next month.