im pretty sure you all understand the reason for wanting to reduce button bloat is because more buttons are coming in the next expansion right?
Design philosophies change, new ideas come up, and better ways of handling things are a part of those new ideas. In the next expansion you know for sure 10 more levels of leveling are coming and in those 10 levels they will likely squeeze in 5 new features with perhaps 2 of them being new buttons, and the other 3 being traits that upgrade existing buttons. This is just the ff14 formula now.