Can we just not go through with the tsubame change?

[Azlith]

If there is a more optimal way of playing, most people who take the game seriously will be drawn to executing it that way even though they don't enjoy it as much. People who care about performance tend to conform or want to conform to what is optimal whether they like it or not. I think the 0.0001% of the playerbase that is engaged by these optimizations are less important than the people who do it or think they should be doing it because it is optimal despite not enjoying it. It's a problem with game design if people don't enjoy what they have to conform to to be optimal, because there are a lot of people who force or think they should be forcing themselves to play optimally and adhere to what it is rather than playing how they really to at the cost of dps.

Then there is the other demographic who plays how they really want to and feels bad about not playing the job "right" despite knowing the miniscule optimization that they are choosing not to execute. It's a lot of bad feelings from several different groups just to keep the "hardcore playerbase" engaged. It's almost like elitism is cringe and people shouldn't be feeling like they are underperforming because they don't do this stupid thing that leads to 3% or less dps.

I don't see any evidence to support this with regards to this game. I've done a lot of PF of savage, EX and unreal (and a tiny bit of pf ulti) and I don't believe I've ever seen anyone complain about non-standard rotations nor have I ever seen anyone call someone out on playing standard. Its called standard for a reason, that reason being that the vast vast vast majority of players play that rotation. In the case of samurai especially I would guess that over 95-98% of the people who play this job don't even know that ad-hoc rotations exist, virtually everyone plays standard. The balance discord doesn't even mention the existence of ad-hoc. Of those that do know ad-hoc is a thing most of them don't even care enough to play non-standard because its simply not worth trying to learn for them, the damage increase just isn't worth the effort seeing as standard is more than good enough. Again, my experience leads me to believe that there are hardly any people out there worried about how much damage they're losing or how much damage their party members are losing due to not playing standard on any job and in any content.