Guess that's my bad for not addressing my post directly to the OP.
But the point is, if we had working elements, we'd have lots of people trying to use water or ice against fire, or wind against earth, because XIV's elemental wheel doesn't follow typical associations. Some people would make it all the way to Lv100 without understanding the elemental wheel and then throw a tantrum when someone tried to explain to them that they were only doing 1/4 as much damage as they could if they would switch to wind instead of trying to use ice on a fire boss.