This isn't to take shots at your post, because in essence I ultimately agree. Bring back enmity management, make it matter again. Perhaps make it more accessible with good visual UI too while we're at it.

- As pointed above, Ultimatum used to be a role action you could pick and acted as an AoE provoke.

- Current Provoke has been made braindead because it instantly adds +2k aggro potency after putting you at the top of the aggro table (+20k when used under tank stance due to the x10 multiplier). It used to have more synergy with stuff like Shirk for example for tank swaps, although Shirk didn't even exist before SB and tank swaps were already a thing, so Shirk was mostly QoL.

- The "increased enmity" on AoE combos is a remnant of the past when AoE combos for tanks didn't have a distinction between power potency combo and enmity combo like the single target variants: the ST variant enmity combos also used to have "increased enmity" to actually manage aggro outside of tank stance, but they got removed. The reason that "increased enmity" modifier existed was because tank stance wasn't an aggro stance primarily, even if it helped (x 1.7 aggro), but a defensive stance (+20% mitigation, now baked into Tank Mastery). They could remove it today and it wouldn't change anything, much like the ST filler combo is already affected by the modern tank stance anyway (x10 enmity). Same shit with the ranged attacks. Anything you hit as a tank will get a ludicrous aggro multiplier from the stance today so aggro management has essentially become a binary "did you hit something with tank stance on or not".

I too would love seeing a return to more organic aggro management, and I think the old system worked fine enough. Some things could always be made better, and I'm pretty neutral on whether or not the rest of the party should partake in it a little or not, the main issue was mostly that pressing an aggro button on cooldown was hardly enthralling, and giving to NIN such a meta tool like Shadewalker/Smokescreen and not to anybody else was also a recipe for meta disasters. I'd be actually fine with a lot of roles having access to it, if just rphys actually (because of its stated identity and because we're still looking for justification for the ranged tax).