I personally am hoping to see most of Windower's functions absorbed into the game client, but judging on SE's previous attempt (the built in one they added last year) and their lack of any kind of technical design ability, I am not going to put any stock into expecting it.
A permanent player TP viewer without the need for macro commands - Mandatory
Windowed functions without the performance drop the built in one gives - Mandatory
Extended Macro Functionality - Would be nice, but not mandatory
Drawdistance toggles - Would be nice, and should already be ingame, but not mandatory
Cooldowns displayed clearly - On the fence between mandatory and passive on this one
Looking at FFXIV, we can see their tech knowledge is verging on the non-existant. Playonline is a horrible login system to use, and they continued to use a similar one for XIV. Using WoW's launcher as a perfect example here. The launcher auto updates, takes minimal resources, and intelligently patches, rarely needing a full reinstall, but FFXI's requires a client and launcher patch, and then a second client patch after subscribing. The technical workings behind it are awful, and it takes roughly 4 minutes to get from desktop to game login screen every time. In WoW, Rift, AoC, I can be ingame in around 20 seconds.
Those are problems I would like to see fixed first.

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