Player A (<100ms ping) : "Why the f**k you just stand there?!" (On his screen)
Player B (>200ms ping) : "I didn't!!! I swear to god, I'm like miles away from Plumes!!!"
Kinda this.
I played through WoW's raid content during TBC, WoTLK and early Cataclysm. I've seen interesting fights, I've seen difficult fights, but with or without DBM/BigWigs, learning and mastering the fight did not end on memorizing the AoE patterns. In FFXIV, this is the case. We've had trouble with Titan HM right up to the point where our tank started to recite the phase pattern in voice chat for players unfamiliar with it - and people stopped dying to stuff IMMEDIATELY. Make an add-on that will flash your screen and announce the next mechanic - and a 5-year old can beat anything in this game. This wasn't the case with WoW, where add-ons or no add-ons, you still had a lot to learn. In FFXIV the ultimate recipe for victory is:

a) Have low ping and no packet loss ( = pay for VPN for many).
b) Memorize the pattern.
c) Pass the gear check.

That's it.
Which is kinda sad.