Are macros necessary?

[BorisDaBlade]

Text macros tend to make me do the exact opposite of what the macro says.
I'll go out of my way to not despell any WAR who spams the chat and my ears with his annoying sound-based macro about his buff ending and needing despell soon.

I 100% agree with this. I just take the macro as the WAR reminding themselves of how long they have until they can sit on their thumbs for 5 seconds.