I would like to say that it also doesn't help that skills in FFXIV are not ever entirely replaced by new ones as you level, while in most other MMOs, you just spam the same 5 skills or even less once you hit the level cap. That would probably throw off a lot of people in this game, the idea that you basically need to learn how to manage most, if not ALL of your skills in order to be truly effective.

I don't mean to say that this is actually a bad thing, but the sort of feedback we desire to have the community become better at playing as a whole is never really going to exist when 1) there are people that will take any criticism as a personal attack, and 2) there are people that will oppose any means of upfront damage feedback out of fears that it would foster elitism, even if it is just that - fears.