New Missaphenchair video makes great point about the direction of job design

[Kulve]

Unless you're doing Extreme, Savage, Ultimates, you are not forced to play optimally as some people would prefer to play. You can press whatever button, miss positionals, drop dots occasionally. There's nothing wrong with that and you can still clear the content. Forcing players that enjoy having jobs that have a certain level of complexity so they can enjoy at high level content is fine too. The idea that "I can't play the job at 100% efficiency, make the job conform to me and everyone else should play to my own capability" is down right selfish and hurts the game long term. Also name calling people that are of different opinion of you an 'elitist' is just telling that you don't care of anyone else's enjoyment of the game other than yourself by attempting to invalidate them.

Also, there are handicapped players, but they still are still capable of playing high end content by working around it. Don't invalidate their efforts to overcome their own limitations. Is there certain aspects that can be tuned to make it more accessible? Sure, Remove all complexity? No.

This is an MMO. There are players of different play skills that find different parts of this game fun. One of the big things that's been pointed out is that FF14 end game is what you make of it. The devs have to find a balance that allows players just wanting to clear normal content and have fun without stress, and players who want to take it further in high end content. It's been said before, jobs should be designed with low floors for entry and accessibility, while providing varied high barriers to master for prolonged engagement. Never should the devs develop or tune all jobs for only one half of their community while alienating the other.

[ThorneDynasty]

Unless you're doing Extreme, Savage, Ultimates, you are not forced to play optimally as some people would prefer to play.

You don't need to play optimally for Extreme either. Not meeting the DPS checks almost always comes down to the number of KOs. Their anecdote about "almost rage quitting" because the normal trials were too hard is a completely nonsensical argument for any kind of job difficulty - You practically never fail normal mode trials because of job difficulty, you fail them because of encounter mechanics. They don't even know what they are arguing (or are just trolling).