People don’t realize how easy it is to get into raiding in this game

[Valence]

Every single game has that. Take TERA, for example, or Blade and Soul. Bosses do the same attack sequence based on HP, while in FF14, they are on a timeline. Ultimately, it's still the same choreography that you need to learn because it has the same triggers. Boss is 90%-> it does X, Y, Z.. you stand A, B, C.

I waited for someone to bring up the HP based triggers instead of the timeline based...

ARR/HW was like that, actually. It's such a small thing but it can have such big consequences on the way a fight goes. Except for the very first mechanic, a lot of the later mechanics will never start at the exact same moment, which means uptime jobs will never be able to spreadsheet it fully, healers and mitigation neither, tanks will need to adjust (ah yes bosses were also fully repositionable 100% of the time), and DPS rotations would also get desynced from the mechanical timeline. This will also keep changing as people gear up, depending on comps, and also deaths or party performance! Combine this with a battle content that wasn't tailored around 2min buffs and with a lot more varied DPS profiles (today everybody is a builder spender with 2min auto nukes), with different party buff timers, and you ended up with something a lot more organic and flexible.

We can of course go a LOT further, and BnS is by far not an extreme example, but the fact that you try to downplay this tiny but huge difference is very misleading, because the gap in difference it makes is big, actually.

Indeed. Remind me again when was last time dev even bothered to implement something which was made in this particular forum?

I mean they still tell us to give feedback there, whether they read it or not. I do suspect them to read some of it in the pvp sections at the very least from what I've seen. Rest is up to guess.
If you have a better alternative or place for people to give said feedback though, I'd like to know it. I would have no problem moving there to give my criticism.