FFXIV moved away from auto-attack while WOW went without... how odd.

[Shipp]

Well WOW might just be testing the waters for a non-auto attack system. If it works well they might introduce the system for all classes but if they fail at it like FFXIV did, then the Monk class might eventually go back to auto-attack too.

WoW already largely does not use auto-attack. The only people using it are melee who have all of their abilities on cooldown. 95% of the time you are using skills (even as melee), which is much faster paced than XIV was even before auto-attack. The other 5% is when your character auto-attacks eventually while you're waiting for the 1 second global cooldown on your next ability.