Content should be challenging to execute... Not challenging to learn

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I disagree. I'm pretty confident that no matter how long you spend learning about how to pilot a jet you couldn't do it your first try. You could easily watch and read about anything in FFXIV and execute it flawlessly on your first attempt. The skill part of the game would be learning your class and abilities, but if you already knew that then the boss encounters themselves are nothing after knowing what to do.

Perhaps there is a thin line between the two, but it in my opinion the game is definitely more about knowledge than technical ability.

Came here to say this is false. This is the purpose of training, and millions of people do it. Back to the topic, the fastest clears for anything didn't use any thing of the sort (duh, it didn't exist because they were the first clears). So it's faster to just not cheat and to learn it the right way.