Quote Originally Posted by LalaLuna View Post
"Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game." - Soren Johnson (2011), source: https://www.designer-notes.com/?p=369
This right here. Something I've certainly noticed a long time ago. Most complaints about the game only exist because people try to optimize the heck out of everything. If they would stop doing that, their issues would immediately stop being issues.

I don't try to optimize anything since I don't care. I'm here to play Final Fantasy 14, not Spreadsheet Simulator 2020.

Do I dps every chance I get when I'm healing? Of course I do because I enjoy doing it. I do not and will not try to squeeze out every possible bit of damage however as that isn't fun.

Have I done savage content in the past? Yes I have. Got clears? Yep. The obsession with optimization is what drove me out of it.

FF14 isn't a job, it's a game and that's how I'm going to treat it.