Its ffxiv combat really so slow and boring?

[RiyahArp]

PLD isn't a pet job, so you're shifting the goal posts a bit there. You can set what bars are available to be cycled through both with weapon sheathed and weapon unsheathed in the options menu.

Eh, but the single tap is also vulnerable to fat fingering it. Otherwise the WXHD would be fine. And you're also needing to deal with muscle memory, so it doesn't work well unless you can map abilities in a manner. Like my base cure and my base stone sharing x is ok, but Aero 3 and a strong cure in the same button can mess you up. And for me, I play every single job at 70, so the layouts vary a lot and make having multiple bars a bit of a pain too past 32. Or rather, it did in HW, i just wound up dropping jobs then.
In any case, I don't think it can be said it's easy to access beyond 32; you are still dealing with a decent learning curve, both in configuring your layout and triaging abilities, and there still is reaction time penalty, so it's best anyways to reserve it for macros or uncommonly used stuff.