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But in an MMORPG, there's a social aspect, which Gothic lacks.

Great, I don't want the social aspect with all the schoolkids and noobs.

And it's funny that you're not interested in that, but at the same time, you're interested in grinding for two dozen wolves with a rusty two-handed sword or killing ten thousand orcs with a battering ram for three days. These are mutually exclusive statements.

I thought my whining in the forum about spending two weeks killing orcs around the castle in Return was well-remembered :D
However, in this add-on, there are four times as many of them, and each one is three times stronger, so it was quite a grind, yes.
In G2: Night of the Raven, there are too many orcs around the battering ram, which gets boring.

grinding for two dozen wolves with a rusty two-handed sword

This isn't just mindlessly mashing a series of button combinations on a quickbar, casting a series of identical spells and abilities, like I did in MMORPGs. You need to build tactics, survive somehow, come up with something, etc. Of course, MMORPGs might have that too, but I've already said that it's definitely not the case at the beginning levels.

These are the features that make Gothic very similar to an MMORPG.

There are many of these features in MMORPGs, but few in Gothic. There are slightly more than normal. If you remove them completely, you get a depressing experience without combat; there's no one to fight. Well, you know, you just need balance in this. Gothic has a normal balance with a slight, almost insignificant deviation towards combat.

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ten thousand orcs

approximately five hundred. And in Return, I counted 2000-2500 orcish axes in my inventory :o