Does WoW have a faster pace than FFXIV?

[Shurrikhan]

WoW's gameplay is completely full of randomness and bugs "Running as intended" and attack motions or timers make little to no sense.
FFXIV is methodical and thought.
WoW is keyboard smashing 4 keys because that's all you have since the prunes.

There's no more randomness there than here. The attack timers and AoE zonal indicators no more inconsistent than here.

Prepositioning is just as important there, even if there may be a little more to force you from memorizing the exact positions, down to the second, to optimally be in over the course of a fight.

...And yet I have... more keys on my main WoW spec (27) than most of my XIV jobs actually utilize? And their order isn't prescripted into 1234567854 Dragoon combos and the like, but instead follows dynamic modifiers and tactical gambles? Not that it particularly matters. Bloat isn't exactly worth boasting about in either game.

I love XIV and all, but you're off on most marks here.

I'm sure the big letters flashing on the screen telling you "Don't step in the fire" where a big help, honest.

Because obscuring your own UI would be so much more useful than just... seeing the fire already covering the floor?