For /Crosshotbar and /hotbar, allow us to actually set stuff.

[ariaandkia]

Maybe I don't understand the problem fully.
I'm on PC but I use a gamepad and crosshotbars for all battle actions. I play WAR, WHM, MNK, and BLM.
While I don't use more than 3 hotbars per job, each job can have a unique set of up to 8 bars. You can also choose if you want certain bars shared with all jobs or if you want to keep some independent.

Additionally you can set it to cycle through only specific bars when pressing R1, and you can split bars up to be used depending on whether your weapon is out or not. It can be set up to be very versatile.

One last note, although with regular hotbars you get 10 bars and only 8 with crosshotbars, the latter actually has more total slots since normal hotbars accommodate 12 abilities while each crosshotbar holds up to 16.

You get effectively less though since with hotbars, you get 120 at any given time while with crosshotbars, you only have 16+16=32 at most. So while crosshotbar gets 128, the effective value is actually lower.

To really understand the issue, you really need to play as a scholar where you need to place your pet and sometimes you need to control it manually, especially when you need skills to activate in a specific order to get a nice combo going, but also need it to happen fast (thus you can't simply macro it) and might need to shorten the combo on the fly (less effect but when you really need something right away...) And as I mentioned above, combined with the extra tasks I'm often expected to do, I tend to need a great variety of setups, especially when dealing with roulette (Can't exactly tell my party to wait five minutes while I set up my hotbars for that dungeon every time)