Quote Originally Posted by Nyarlha View Post
As things have been going, we all know they're not going to make the jobs more complicated. So, all things being the same regarding basic combos, I'd rather free up a few keybinds to actually add some interesting new abilities.
You're assuming we will get more actions to replace all they prune away when that likely isn't the case. Dragoon got four new abilities going into Shadowbringers: Coerthan Torment, High Jump, Raiden Thrust and Stardiver. Of those four, two are upgrades, one is a fairly pointless AoE combo extension and the last is only used every 30 seconds. It's incredibly unlikely they add more than this for Endwalker, thus combo consolidation results is losing five buttons for essentially one oGCD you'll press not even half as often.

Perhaps you won't find it boring to spam 1 and 2 endlessly but I certainly would. If I had any belief they'd actually add more complexity back to the jobs, or hell, even a whole new combo for Dragoon, I might be more on board with combo consolidation. Instead, I see it being more like Bard, Machinist and Warrior where my hotbars are just a barren wasteland of empty space. I'd rather just keep the combos as they are in that case.