Skill/Spell Speed Should be Removed from Gear

[AwesomeJr44]

Hell no. It's the only secondary stat with an actual effect on gameplay and basically the only actual player customization (different rotations at different GCD thresholds) permitted in the entire game beyond job choice.

Here is my proposed solution: remove SKS completely from gear's substats and make it something you get exclusively from melding with materia. This grants more control to the player to choose what speed they want to play at without restricting what kinds of gear they're allowed to use during prog or reclears. To compensate for this change, the values for SKS/SPS tiers would also be adjusted to require smaller amounts of the stat per stat tier.

I'm starting to think people didn't read the OP before responding.

OP is objectively correct.

I'm not sure if I'm objectively correct, but I haven't really heard a good counterargument yet.

We shouldn't remove everything that slightly inconveniences someone. If anything XIV needs to add more stuff to their battle system.

It depends on why. If the inconvenience is for a good reason, then it should be kept in the game. If it's just inconvenience for inconvenience's sake, or a dumb system at its core, then it should be changed. QoL can be a good thing in many cases. However, I will agree with you on the second point.