Almost every complaint about the ShB job changes could be solved with talents

[Xyr]

Yes I did, and my point stands, the majority of the talents stay the same with only a few changing. Between different bosses it's like 2 or 3 talent changes, but then the next boss they go back to the previous used ones, so there's still only like 1 or 2 options for fights. I will concede to you that there's a small choice, but overall for the whole talent system it's an illusion of choice, the fact that the majority of the talents are set in stone is my point that it's an illusion of choice. What is even the point of having an option for those talents that never change if you never change them.

I will give it to you based on those logs Black Mage is always on top, but the other classes at least seem to be more diversified. Though I would rather take that then a useless talent system.

It's not a useless system if it adds significant diversity to their roster. Again, 10-1 ratio on diversity. If you rather have Black Mage dominate every single boss than have a talent system. That's your choice, but for me, I rather have diversity than monopolization.

Considering how bad of a spot WoW is in lately I'd say anything from it should be lessons other developers learn from vs blindly implementing into their game that's not been balanced for it for nearly a decade. There's a reason we even have the WoW Refugee memes, the game is going downhill so maybe keep it's garbage out of FFXIV?

WoW has been going down hill because it's old. It's the natural course of progression. Games don't last forever. WoW's talent system existed since their classic, during the height of their game, each class had around 90 talents to pick 40-50 from. By your logic their "talent system" would be amazing and should be implemented if it was at the height of their game, while at the low of their game their talent system is terrible? The lack of consistency in your logic is terrible.