Actually, no one is arguing that macros are bad in general. You can do amazing things with macros.

...just not the things you are doing with them

Macros are great for crafting! Macros are awesome to create extra mini-menus on your hotbars! Macros are helpful to announce stuff in chat!
Macros are fun when just goofing around in social situations. And they are even, in special cases, helpful in combat, to place ground AoEs, or select mouse-over targets for certain skills, and the like.

What they are not great for...is pretty much everything you have done with them.
You need to understand that 1. macros can't queue up skills, meaning you will waste a lot of time waiting between skills instead of instantly using one skill after the next and 2. I don't even PLD much but why the heck would you use all your cooldowns at once in the first place...that's not good cooldown management regardless of macro usage or not (it just gets infinitely worse by how long it will take to use them all with a macro...and why is there a random stoneskin cast thrown into the mix?).

Quote Originally Posted by Zodathria123 View Post
it is proven a player uses correct macros can out damage a player who manual presses their keys by 40%
Oh I see! Then I totally have to belive you now, thank you for that arbitrary made up number!
You know what's also proven? BLM can out-dps any other dps class by 180% if played correctly, no matter how good the other players may be!
New meta guys, everyone be sure to only bring 4 BLMs for every content now, because a random lady on the internet told you it's proven