Personally I never understood the pushback against having to adjust buff usage relative to party composition.

Isn’t that one of the defining features of ‘support’? And personally I enjoy the idea of having to adjust buff usage based on things like context or other party member’s playstyles or whatever. It’s certainly more interesting than having a bunch of auto-buffs every 120s in my opinion. Plus it’s not like there aren’t a fair amount of jobs with no/little support capabilities for those players that don’t want to have that kind of playstyle like Monk, Black Mage, Samurai and Machinist

Of course, I’m not advocating for the ‘set party composition’ that we had during Stormblood as a result of party synergies. But at the same time, I don’t think it’s bad to give players more agency over when they use buff skills and requiring actual planning/strategising for using them