I need to vent about FFXIV as a whole at this point.

[IOwn92FCHouses]

I return from my hole in the ground to say.

This game cannot in any universe claim to be a game that deserves a monthly sub fee with the little amount of stuff it gives you to do and with the neglect the devs are doling out with not even fixing basic functions like some characters not being able to wear hats, . (And no, content from years ago does not count.)
They should have two tiers.

One, no sub, access to an apartment, and "content"

Two, luxury sub, access to housing, monthly addition of cash shop currency and some other luxury stuff

This game is not an MMO, its a singleplayer game wearing the skinsuit of one. I hope someone in the studio wakes up and kicks their combat designer out, so they can replace it with someone who can create more exciting fights with variables, rng and player engagement, instead of DDR-memory gauntlets with you repeating the same rotation over and over and over again.
A quest designer that doesn't surmount to an AI repeating the same quests with a different text and same mechanics of... purple kill two mobs, or talk and talk with the dumb Soken recycled "Feel happy now, the quest is over" piano music. Might as well be Christmas when they give us the "Follow npc and hide" quest, that actually had some effort in it. Recycle recycle recycle recycle is FFXIV in a nutshell, it's lazy and lacks integrity.

While you're at it, please never let the Primals do another themesong again for an expansion, leave them outside of the game. I don't want to pay for the "privilege" of witnessing Sokens and Koji Fox's boomer band midlife crisis as they live their band dreams out, they should buy Harley Davidsons or Ferraris like any other self-respecting middle-aged person. This is exactly how Hildbrand went from a fun little sidequest-series into now ruining the integrity of the lore and feel of the game because "Haha funny meme".

I will never, ever get tired of people saying that fights are a ddr dance, memory gauntlet, and that the combat devs should be replaced, while at the same time the person saying it struggles to do normal raids, let alone entering the challenging, interesting content they say the game lacks.

You want more exciting fights? They're right there, waiting for you. Though I do understand that parroting things you've heard others say is far easier than working on your own gameplay and approach, it's unfair to speak of "exciting" combat without ever even attempting anything harder than normal 8 man raids.

Like, my man. You haven't even displaced the air around the surface of the game's combat, let alone scratching that surface. Maybe if you cared a bit more about your gameplay, you'd find the gameplay more fun.

All I know is that I wouldn't find it fun to be hard carried by 3 to 7 people for... 5 or so years, from the looks of it.