Each expansion I get hyped and also worried about more skills.

[Puremallace]

I think you are misreading what I said. I said button prune, not ability prune. There are so many abilities that are only usable while under a condition set by another ability and there are some abilities that are mutually exclusive. These could all get condensed into one button without ruining the flow.

I am also open to combos being put on one button but am a little less sure about that except in conditional combos (1-2-3 but 2 is literally only usable after 1 and 1 does not branch etc)

See I could fully agree with this but that is not what developers hear when they see these types of post and go into meetings about ability bloat. Blizzard and other developers heard remove buttons so they removed buttons instead of just making one button do multiple things.

I am 100% in support of combining abilities if it makes sense.

For some reason MMO developers across the board think MMO players only want the next flashy button with an expansion or we will turn on them somehow. Right now if you look at WoW they are 4 expansions ahead of us and the tipping point to borrowed power was 2 expansions ago.

So going by that math we are 2 expansions away from seeing if Square Enix thinks borrowed power is a good idea. My guess after watching the current flood from WoW and hated expansions they will never consider this.

Personally I hope they nuke the place in a calamity and reset us back to zero with a brand new design far more open world MMO. Keep the frivolous stuff like mounts or whatever but reset power straight back to 0.