Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Third-party combat assisting addons are almost entirely in the vein of button consolidations, not auto-rotation. Think PvP combos. That's it. And they're plenty frequently used even now, so I'm not sure how you get the idea that replacing more nuance-capable aspects with yet more flavors of "Press CD version 1 if 1 target, version 2 if more than 1 target" has somehow reduced the number of people getting rid of bloat where they can. If anything, because there's that much more bloat now within our obligatory keys (instead of the mere likes of cross-class Featherfoot or StB Cleric Stance) and there are fewer use cases for anything out of lockstep order, those addons have become that much more useful (more buttons saved, more value from saved buttons, and fewer ways for consolidation to go wrong).
Defending stuff like this makes your entire perspective invalid and out of touch.