Combat system is beyond saving.

[Somnolence]

This could be said about any place online where people go to discuss something opinion related. Reddit, 4chan, twitter, discord, etc. Especially places like reddit or discord where opinions are heavily moderated they are all bound to become 'echo chambers'. Not to mention that no matter the platform a discussion is taking place on, you will inherently only see people posting who are more passionate about whatever the subject is than most of the people involved. It's not necessarily that the 95% of people who ignore the forums "all disagree" with the opinions being shared, but they just don't care enough to share. In the case of this game I would bet that most of them probably don't care about the combat system AT ALL.

Well it is a fact that 90% complaints and whine about specific FFXIV topics is located in these forums. Specifically I am in quite a few community discords for this game hence lax moderation so people saying whatever they want (and raiding related ones even have some toxicity to spice it up) and mostly its just people enjoying the game and having fun.

Specifically the opinion about the tanks I replied to was the first time I ever saw such statement. Well even bald streamer is not complaining so tanks should be in good enough spot

Does game has issues with combat? Sure, but they all are caused by SE being deadly afraid to take risks and trying to target everyone simultaneously so there is no chance of anything changing while its is profitable.