All Se did was add gear for choices. How you use the gear is up to yall.
Only a select few believe in the "one gear for all" mantality. Some still play the "old school" rpg way by making choices.

But w/e I do think the manniquin system ffxiv is adding could work here instead of going thru gear macros or chaining macros.
Pretty much you get the gear slot screen and put in ur gear. Then save it. Each job gets 10 sets.
then all u do is
/man "set 1" <me> <wait 1>

/ja <instert job ability here>

or /ma <instert spell here

or /ws <insert ws here>

this way u can swap out full sets to max out each skill 10fold with all the gear u have/can use. And it saves in macro spaces.