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

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I'm saying as someone who's played since 1.0 on both games that WoW's talent system has always been a nightmare to balance resulting in many a period of "God Tier Talents' that broke gameplay balance or caused exploits. My point is it was a bad system at the start that only provided fluff and only got worse as time went on.

If you've been playing since 1.0 then you should know that FFXIV has never been balanced any better than WoW had. So, balancing or not was not because of talents. Even now, AGAIN, WoW has a diversity of top dps of 10 different classes versus only 1 in FFXIV that is the black mage. Your point is moot.