FFXI didn't have a bad UI. It just wasn't the UI from WoW.

And I don't think it needs to be an exact port of the menu system in FFXI, but I want to be able to control character and camera movement with one hand. Numpad/arrow keys.

Furthermore I don't want to need to scroll between action bars to use them. I'd much rather see the action bar be a menu that you populate with your abilities and then are incorporated as macros. And it could be that they add functions for macros not attributed to ctrl or alt, and then add a better macro paging system where ctrl/alt/straight numbers are considered a full macro page which correlates with what the action bar is now, and you can just drag/drop abilities to it, as well as customize them in the macro edit menu.

I've played mouse/keyboard MMOs, and while they are easier to learn initially I don't find them easier to navigate than the FFXI pure keyboard set up. Granted FFXI's controls took longer to get used to, but once you were used to it, it was pretty easy to use.

I'm not saying they need to totally abandon mouse support either... if they are going to implement controller function, it should be no problem to have the keyboard be able to function exactly like a controller, that's what they did in FFXI. They just need to unlock to the arrow keys so we can map camera control to them, and fix target tabbing.

They could do that, and still support and improve mouse controls. That way people could choose their preferred method.