Auto-attack is a step backward.

[Duelle]

FFXI Auto attack was great, it just lacked the ability to do any other attacks unless you have TP for it but the system worked great. Especially after haste gear and what not you didn't stand around waiting for 2 hours to swing your weapon and TP flowed constantly. This game is already different because you will always have TP and can do some attacks for as low as 250 TP.

The game would have benefited from the jobs having their own resource system. TP in XI favors classes with fast weapons, even moreso back when the old TP floor existed. Multi-hit weapons broke the system even more, giving anyone who could wield a weapon in their offhand a notable advantage.

Weapon delay was also partly to blame for all this, but all of it is tied to how TP was affected by auto-attack (which by extension included Haste, weapon delay and Store TP).