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

[Xyr]

The game is built to modern MMO standards. Also note that "modern standards" is very nebulous. There are people who want turn based games, there are people that want pure action games, there are people who want hybrid turn based action games, there are people who want turn based tactics games, there are people who want hybrid turn based tactics shooter games (valkyria chronicles if that confused you).

This game would not have 14m active accounts if it was not up to "modern standards".

Number of subs doesn't have to do with being modern, and enough with the subs. The whole thing with subs is just such a cop out, "There's subs therefore it is perfect." Which is nowhere near true. Quite frankly, SE knows what modern standards are. They make their FF games based off such standards, they themselves knows and FFXIV SHB is not even up to par of FFXV, and at this point I'm tired of arguing about it, at the end of the day, what's important is that SE knows, it doesn't matter some people subjectively thinks they want in a game as that has nothing to do with modernness.