I came from 6 years of XI on PS with my gamepad and keyboard.
Now in XIV i play with my Board and hardly ever my mouse.

I find the board very easy and helpful for me to be able to do anything I want.
I like having a lot more buttons than a gamepad.

And i too sometimes think we have too much crap on the screen, i try to hide a lot of it behind my textbox. I want to see what my character is doing, not just the icons for the things he can do. I find one bar of actions just fine, and i push one button to get to the other bar's.

What I want to see is a way to change the size of all the stuff on screen, not just the textbox and hp bar, but the size of the action bars too and the map would be neat. I memorize the keys i asign them to, so i dont need a huge button in my face saying "im over here". And being able to toggle them on off easily... togle my mp gage off cause im not a mage, toggle my map off cause i already know where i am. Toggle my textbox off cause im not speaking to anyone.

Thoughts.