FFXIV has too few abilities at early levels and too many at later levels

[Zeastria]

Less buttons at lower lvls do make it harder to learn the job..if you are gonna end up w a lot of button at endgame anyway..
Because you dont get to practies and learn all your skills gradually...
I dislike that we have to learn a lot new skills at 70-80+ lol

[Striker44]

Less buttons at lower lvls do make it harder to learn the job..if you are gonna end up w a lot of button at endgame anyway..
Because you dont get to practies and learn all your skills gradually...
I dislike that we have to learn a lot new skills at 70-80+ lol

It's a lose-lose situation there. On the one hand, adding new skills later makes you have to rethink your rotation later on. On the other hand, if you learned all your skills early, it would feel underwhelming gaining a few dozen levels and getting nothing new. Less buttons at lower levels makes the game more accessible by allowing players to gradually but steadily see how each new ability fits into the rotation and get comfortable with it before adding the next piece in. You actually do get to learn your skills gradually this way.

It is fair to say that Heavensward rotations used to be more button heavy than they are now, especially in the buff area or monitoring status effects area, but keeping it simple at level 60 fits in with their current direction of making rotations easy and intuitive, which many old rotations weren't.

Remember as well that when HW rotations had that, HW was also the end-game. Now, it's quite early in the leveling process, so it makes sense that the toolkit is smaller at that point.