Just gonna say it now. I don't believe for one second that anyone on the PC is using 6 macros for one gear switch, and you aren't kidding anyone by saying that you do.
Also the argument about not gear swapping is simply that you are not min/maxing your character. While you may be successful sometimes in doing something like soloing a hard encounter, for the 20 times you, for example, had to Paralyze the target, your gear swapping would give you a 90% success rate on landing the spell, whereas not swapping would give you a 20% success rate (numbers pulled from the other hole by the way).
You can go the whole game without ever switching out gear, but you are making things pointlessly difficult for you, and frustrating for anyone you play with, and also the core mechanic of any MMo is obtaining better gear to go onto better fights, to get better gear, ad infinitum. If you have no intention of getting better gear for better efficiency, the game becomes without any point. If you enjoy it, then fine, enjoy it, but don't get fussy when people you group with call you out on it and kick you as a result.
As an ex-endgame shell leader, I will always give people time and resources to learn this stuff, but if after tirelessly trying to get them to improve, they still continually gimp themselves out of either lazyness or principle, they will become some other shells problem, and not mine.

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