Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
Eh, you're conflating though. Reduced buttons doesn't HAVE to equal unengaging. You painted feedback pure red, maybe some asked for simple but usually I see something with far more nuance. Your view purges nuance. Like for me I think akin to GW2 which tends to have few buttons but isn't SMN levels of simple.
There is a significant difference between the combat systems that GW2 employs compared to XIV.

Significantly faster GCD, lower cooldowns across the board, more reactionary gameplay, just like ESO (which has a very similar system) it is a lot more spammy and reliant on the player's motor skills.

Between dodging, weapon swapping and executing an ability pretty much every second, it is a very different experience in practice than cycling through the exact same 5 buttons every 2.5 seconds and occasionally WASDing out of the danger circle.