Quit trying to turn FFXIV into Wow, peeps

[MoroMurasaki]

You're doing it too - how can you know that you don't want things to be more or less like WoW when you, by your own admission, haven't played it.
Anyway - here's an example of what I think you (and others) who dislike WoW (in principal at least it seems) should be worried about:

Class homogenization: This is a big one for modern-era WoW. Crowd-crontrol out the window, all classes can basically do the same thing: "Bring the player not the class" mentality. Class buffs gone (racial buffs went years ago). This is creeping into FFXIV - first with the removal of allocated stats and cross-class skills... that's the first step and something that I, and you, should be concerned about.

You don't need to play a game to have an opinion on it and I'm not sure what makes you think that. As someone who does a ton of research before buying a game I can tell you I have at the very least a base understanding of it's ins and outs and I think it does what it does very well.

I'd also appreciate it if you didn't say that I dislike WoW when I literally said in my post you're quoting from that I don't dislike it and find it to be quite interesting. I like dumplings and ice cream but don't want dumplings on my ice cream.

If you're concerned about homogenization how about being opposed to the homogenization of MMO's as a whole? WOW exists for players who want that experience. Dedicating dev time and money making FFXIV move closer to WoW when that game is already on the market instead of moving it in a more original direction just seems nonsensical to me.

Also stat allocation was literally only debatable on SCH/SMN (imo the removal here was a huge win, I like being able to play both) and tanks when STR and VIT were actually both viable. Any BRDs not full DEX or BLMs full INT weren't embracing 'customization' they were just playing poorly.