Quote Originally Posted by LittleImp View Post
I have actually indeed seen a few statics that had a hard requirement that members use cactbot, which is unavailable on console and is effectively a cheat program.
This is a positive! Gives you a giant red flag of who to stay away from, because those are bad players, looking to blame everyone but themselves for their failures.

Quote Originally Posted by HolyReign View Post
UI Changes and Addons are just silly, and 100% unnecessary in ANY of FFXIV's Content. All they will serve to do, is add to a, "Elitist", mindset and solidifying certain jobs in the, "Muh META", mindset. Leaving those who, don't use them, or don't play X Job to make their own groups, which as the, "Elitist, and Muh META." mindset grows, so wont the communities opinion on certain jobs, and those people who choose to play them.

Totally not looking forward into getting, pushed, into using Addons and different UIs, like I was in WoW.
How do UI changes enforce a job meta? The only portion of the player base who cares about "meta" is the toxic casual part (most of the people commenting on this thread).

The high end, or "Elite" raid scene in the game don't care about addons. Don't care about "meta". Meta groups have never and will never be a thing among the "Elite" end of the playerbase.

Quote Originally Posted by Xaruko_Nexume View Post
This is 100% the concern and inevitable at this point unless SE steps in soon, and I hope they will.
Again, this is a blessing, it lets you know which groups to stay away from. These people are toxic casuals who think they are top tier raiders. You should be wanting more of this in the game, you get to add them to blacklist straightaway instead of wasting weeks raiding with them only to find they are trash,