Quote Originally Posted by Videra View Post
'Heavensward button bloat' was a myth. All the consistent expansion re-works have done with FFXIV is dumb down classes and remove systems, like TP, aggro management via shirk before just ripping out the concept of stances entirely, cleric stance - which was divisive - and many, many other we've regrettably lost as time has gone on.
There was button bloat but they were just the skills were the ones that may as well have not existed because you set them and forgot them like Ninja/Monk Stances, or skills that may as well have not existed for how useless they were like Featherfoot/Haymaker/One-Ilm Punch. The problem was they also wiped out skills that weren't bloat like Touch of Death and Phlebotomize, and most of the "bloat" they removed going into Shadowbringers really weren't or they were making a change they should have made in Stormblood where they were making Gauges a thing.