Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
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.
They didn't add more because they couldn't add more. As I said multiple time, the devs have been clear that they try and keep the amount of buttons relatively the same from level cap to level cap. If they consolidate combos, they could still keep the same amount of buttons (which is THEIR STATED GOAL) while giving us more than 2 new extremely situational abilities.