Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
When ARR was first started there was depth here and there, some depth was annoying and is probably good it was polished out, but for the time it had to cook it was fine; however, that short cooking time and each expansion afterwards leads to less and less 'depth'.
To be completely honest, almost everything they removed was annoying jank and needed to be removed because it wasn't working or was flat out useless. I at least felt that way until Warrior and Samurai's cones got changed to circles, which is when the changes really began to go overboard.

The problem is just that they didn't replace it with things that did work, making the game feel simpler and more shallow.