I guess the setup is more of a personal thing because I can't really detect the rhyme and reason of yours lol. I see the idea of keeping all your basic attacks up on the face buttons (and thanks for the tip about the R1--I'll keep that lol), which is also what I do. The way I have my keys set up though is so I can facilitate the opening combo simply and keep the attacks up, by streamlining my buttons.

The only macro I really have up there is my F&C and WT macro, since I don't usually need to macro those kinds of things lol.

I moved some things around so I can try and keep WT and F&C off macro, but so far its slowing me down lol. I'll keep practicing it though.