As someone that just today melted 30 materias on a 17% slot... I disagree with OP. Because those must be wasted somehow or they will become worthless (every patch already makes them easier and easier to get).

Plus, combat materia for overmeld are cheap and crafting/gathering stuff pentamelded is only required for lazy crafters (i am one) that want to craft all in macros.
Even more with the crafting rework, you can do expert receipe in blue gear, some food, but more important, some though on the rotation and some focus on what is going on (you know, like in combat). And that's what they expect us to do in 5.2 anyway, apparently.

The only QoL acceptable would be an automeld, like the auto-crafting, that will auto-meld until success or end of stack.

Quote Originally Posted by Shadygrove View Post
Personally I like blowing materia up.

And its the only hobby I spend gil on.

I do miss the animation of utter disappointment though.
The animation of disappointment occurs at the end of a materia stack, if all have been destroyed. Makes the emotion even stronger.