Does the average XIV player know how to play their jobs?

[Avoidy]

I don't think so. For a while it was so bad that I just stopped even doing my dailies (which are like the easiest most minimal concentration required content; yet DF still found a way to make this miserable) unless I could find friends to do it with. Tanks who don't aoe, healers who don't use their damage dealing spells, ice mages, rdms who hardcast their long-cast spells, smns who don't summon and just spam ruin at level 90, nins who wear the bunny hat like it's a glam, dncs who need to be reminded to partner someone and then don't even use standard step, songless bards; I've seen so much shit. Even when I dipped a pinky into EX's for the first time in shadowbringers, I had people who needed to be taught, at cap, what arms length was and what it did; I even got to witness a 30% enrage because the damage was just nonexistent and even with markers, a safety dorito, voip callouts, and doing the same clock positionings a dozen times people still couldn't just go to their proper positions and kept wiping us to the same scripted bullshit mechanics. idk dude, I'm not like a gamer god or anything but I have really low expectations when I do stuff with randoms because half the time there'll be at least 1 dude who makes you wonder how the hell he made it to cap because he's playing like he's actually blind irl; and in teams of 8, sometimes you'll have several people like this who just stonewall your progress for hours. I kinda stopped healing because I was sick of cleaning it up too.

I don't even think making the jobs easier to play has helped in this. SE lowered the bar, and a lot of people just sank lower with it somehow. Not even sure how it's possible, but again, I've seen enough shit to make me wonder.