macros: bad for DPS?

[Amberyl]

How about addressing the points I make instead of strawman-ing me.

Sorry, just got up and missed your post.

Say you're in a fight, you have to dodge some AoEs and stuff, you start to fall behind in the "perfect" rotation, you need to make adjustments to make sure nothing drops off. Limiting yourself to a rigid macro is not going to allow you to work around these changes that need to be made.

You forget the bit where I explained how hardware macro can be paused, simply by taking your finger off the key, and that weaving non-GCD and buffs into it can be trivialized down to perhaps one, or two, in-client macros for the remainder of the setup.

You seem to think macro work is some unbending, rigid structure? Within the client, there's some truth to that but it's not a blanket truth. Again, you're being far too general in your dismissal of what is and isn't possible, whether that's done legitimately not.