Quote Originally Posted by Xieldras View Post
Bet ya 5$ the players will blame the casuals for the changes despite it being repeated that it's for the Encounter Design's purpose.
The button consolidation, removal of buffs, debuffs and DoTs, and overall simplification is definitely targeting gacha (and similar) players who might be intimidated by seeing hotbars with many actions, or having to learn damage rotations, as well as casual FFXIV players who have been complaining about "button bloat" for some time.

To be fair, I agree that a lot of jobs are bloated, but the source of the bloat is the number of "press me once during your burst window and then forget that I exist for 60/120 seconds" buttons, not combo actions or some of the other actions that have absolutely no business being consolidated. Why does PLD's cover have a dash on it??? The lack of sense that this makes, given that PLD is a designated main tank and will be actively tanking a boss, is astounding. Now I can't cover someone without dashing to them and wrecking boss positioning? Who thought this was a good idea? lmao.