These forums are a minority, endwalker was great

[Atelier-Bagur]

It all boils down to the combat design for me, it didn't just make current content stale and boring but inadvertently made old content worse as well.
Even the Ivalice raids are an absolute boring joke nowadays and as far as I know only Cid got nerfed directly.

I think the issue is more so that combat in FFXIV sucks hard than raid encounters.

[Absurdity]

I think the issue is more so that combat in FFXIV sucks hard than raid encounters.

Right now? Absolutely.

But seems to be a conscious decision by the devs, because I don't think tab target combat itself sucks in mmos.
It's just that all moment to moment decision making (as minor as it was previously) has been sandblasted out of the game at this point and all that's left is mindlessly mashing your 1-2-3 for sometimes almost a minute until something else comes off cooldown while you occasionally dodge the bad.
So when dodging the bad isn't enough to make the combat engaging, which it isn't in 90% of content, the entire thing just falls apart.