Parsers add replayability for casual players

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...We will never see everything that occurred in a fight; a parser, however, will account for all of it. We will often make overmuch of the particular mistakes we've seen; a parser will not. We will often assume larger performance differences from perceived imbalance than we ought to; a parser makes no assumptions. We may have the wrong idea of what optimized play entails; a parser forms no ideas, only shows the facts of one's performance.

:: The addition of a parser is little more replacing the likes of children bickering over who owes whom how much of a favor instead with a ledger that can, in this case, appropriately quantify each interaction and bring it all to a sum, thus altogether skipping any need to bicker.

Um... that's not actually true (that bit I highlighted in bold), at least in my experience. The #1 problem I've had with other people and parsers is the fact that the vast majority of people who use them specifically stop paying attention to a lot of game mechanics and instead focus on the pretty dps numbers. In fact, I've never known any parser to track literally "all of it".

To me, that's the biggest problem with a parser; it doesn't track everything, which leads to some folks focusing on just specific aspects of gameplay rather than all.

Which makes the following statement about the addition of a parser also patently false; so long as any tool doesn't account for everything, then there will be discrepancies in how people perceive and then use such a tool. And it's that perspective difference that folks want to avoid having formally introduced into the game since it leads to unpleasant experiences.

Am I missing something? Is there really some magical parser out there that inherently knows FFXIV gameplay and mechanics and is accurately tracking not only the individual abilities but also denoting context of when and where they all need to be used?