I think, ultimately, it's just unfortunate that FFXIV is essentially held hostage by elements of the community where addons are concerned. In many ways the game takes strong cues from what other MMO's do - and WoW has a lot of neat addons that are useful not only for quality of life features but also for role-play related character profiles.

I can understand the aversion to some of the more controversial addons, though I fear that the blanket ban stifles things considerably. Addons worked for WoW and I don't doubt that they could work for FFXIV as well - though I have a sneaking suspicion that the ultimate reason we don't have them is because they wouldn't be available across all platforms and therefore would cause PC players to be at an advantage over PS4 players.