Iaijutsu, and ogi. So where is the player agency again? You use it for those abilities and if you don't you're misplaying, if you use them for anything else, you're misplaying.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you have player agency. You can also use life surge for true thrust on drg. Should you? Is this player agency?

You should never ever be in a position to have midare ready without having enough kenki for kaiten. This 2 enpi for kaiten example honestly makes me feel like you are trolling.

Even the idea of player agency in this game is silly. Rotations are set in stone entirely. Even on RNG based jobs, you don't have player agency. You either misplay or you press the right button in response to the rng condition.

You want player agency? You're playing the wrong game. Player agency will never be part of the discussion in ffxiv. Even when talking about non-standard BLM, it was just a more complicated form of optimal play. There's no player agency in playing less than optimal.

The amount of buzz words you're throwing around in bold text is pretty amusing though. GG!