Why can't we have jobs with this level of depth and customization in FFXIV?

[Luvbunny]

This topic is less "XI had this, why doesn't XIV?" and more "XIV has jobs with very simple mechanics, here's an example of what a future class/job could be similar to."What's wrong with looking to SE's past works and examining ideas that worked that could be altered (probably heavily so it isn't super complex and it won't break the game) and implemented in some way into XIV:ARR (a game that is still growing in many ways). It's unlikely the combat system will ever change, but who's to say we can't have at least one class/job work with at least some more complexity than what we already have? .

But there is nothing remotely "simple" about FF14 game mechanic. Yes some stuffs are somewhat scripted in a way that you need "certain roles" in your party set up, mostly for 4 people duty finder to make it easier for everyone to clear contents. FF14 Jobs has more than enough rotation buttons, far more than FFXI set up, and far far far more complex for certain jobs to be able to play properly. There is nothing complex about FFXI, you swap gears with your macro when your perform certain stuffs, but you mainly spam "weapon skills" at 100 TP, and maybe a few job abilities, like 6-8 buttons macro at most for melee. Not sure where "FFXI is more complex" opinion is coming from.

Pet jobs are the BANE of FFXI existence, over 11 years in the making and the old team (and the new team) has no clue on how to solve this "complex" riddles. Puppetmaster was absolute trash job for years and years with no remedy in fixing the pet AI till recently, half baked solutions at best. Beastmaster was given a fix in Abysea era then the team could not evolve past that. Summoner in FFXI is a hot tranny mess, it was somewhat decent during Abysea era, and now it languishing and in dire need of revision.