Quote Originally Posted by LilimoLimomo View Post
From what I've gathered, that stigma didn't always exist. I've seen videos from many years ago when prominent FF14 content creators made videos on macros. A quick skim of those macros shows that they weren't well-made and would probably result in significant frame loss, the kind that modern macro developers would easily be able to avoid. And yet, despite the flaws in those macros, these videos show that there was a time when such macros were more widely used and accepted by players.
A long time ago, circa 2015 or 2016, there were several threads on macros here. I've completely forgotten them, but according to my post history I've posted pseudo-queueing macros and hotbar changing macros. They were not my own invention, so such tips were already widely known in JP community. At that time there were more macro users and less aversion in English forum than today.

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