Why would anyone be happy about decreased inventory slots? As a culinarian and when I have more jobs with armor and weapons out the kazoo to keep, not to mention all the crap that drops during parties... 200 slots goes pretty quickly. I don't know about you but I like playing the game instead of taking hours to arrange my inventory because I don't have enough room to store my armor and weapons. I also agree with the OP about the RDM job in FFXI, I had every elemental staff also and I always had a full inventory.

I wouldn't mind a quest like the gobbiebags to give us more inventory space, but I don't like that they're taking it away. Although I'll admit that 100 slots is better than 30 slots like some games give though.