ARR is a MMO and they are using the standard MMO UI, there's a reason it's standard pretty much just like CoD set the standard for the FPS layout on controllers.

My thoughts on it? Well I haven't tried it yet but I can asume it will work like other MMO games and I welcome that, any other modern MMO out there have an infinitely better UI than current one IMO. People like to say it's a FF game first and foremost but I don't agree with that, it's a MMO game set in the FF universe so they have to get the MMO part right.

But from what I have seen I love the new UI.