FF14 devs just keep doing your thing because my god

[Shougun]

Also, on the topic of authenticator, while WoW has a convenient notification + button click system, FFXIV's manual authenticator works fine as well in my experience.

Lots of things are 'fine', doesn't mean they can't improve. Notification system is incredibly easy to deal with, vs typing in a silly string and maybe miss typing it and then wasting even more time fiddling with something that is purely there for security and not 'fun'. (Dealing with it isn't an experience to elongate, if anything the experience should be as short as humanly possible while maintain security- that'd be good design).

As for websites I feel most of FFXIV's webistes are pretty good but I do think the account control section feels a bit 2000 (Blizzard's feels more modern, imo). I've had more issues with SE's than Blizzards in my own experience, but I've hardly had issues with SE's either so it's not much to talk about for myself. I visit FFXIV's account controls like once every expansion though so I honestly wouldn't care either way, but I use the authenticator basically every day. Having to type in the code when I know it could be better is an annoyance, if yet a very mild one.

Or at least as Packetdancer said allow me to store it with my other authentications rather than have a separate app for it. Again it's all a mild annoyance, doesn't stop from playing the game, but "mild annoyance" is not the cornerstone of good UI.

"it's kind of okay I guess" is not how you want to describe your system or give yourself as the quality goal. If you HAVE to pick an area where something is good or bad maybe this one gets left behind, but that really shouldn't be the goal (like if one HAD to pick between ultimate vs island sanctuary, but 'both' in these situations whenever possible would be nice).