Quote Originally Posted by Jaquan View Post
Second of all are you advocating that parsers are necessary and content is designed around the idea that everyone is using them?
No, like, the content we have today very likely wouldn't exist without them.

The only reason the community has become skilled at this game to the degree that content like DSR is possible is because of analytical tools like ACT. The game absolutely would not have been pushed as far as it has without players on the cutting edge frequently using these types of tools to collect and interpret data.

You seem to be confusing tools like Cactbot, which actually automate portions of gameplay, with vanilla ACT/FFLogs which simply package and chart existing information in a more human-friendly and accessible way.