How many skills is too many?

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i'd like to play with a controller but when i tried to set up my monk's hotbars i was...very confused and frustrated...
i do not agree with more is better
if i can comfortably play with a controller that would be nice because i'm extremely tired of mouse and keyboard and even then what we have now feels like too much for me
it's worse when i want to play something new and i feel like i can't bc i don't have a heckin clue how to, esp with so many buttons that affect your min/maxing or some bs, so i'm stuck with one thing that i've grown very, very, very bored with
even when i think abt trying to tank my first concern is holding aggro but after that ppl expect you to maximize your dps too and that??????????? i'm?? sorry? i don'T even knOw if i can aCtuAlLy taNk wEll
so i'm..stuck to mnk and...maybe a healer bc..at least when you do dps it's pretty straight-forward; here's a dot for you, maybe two, and here's like two other spells you can use
and monk has felt the same literally since the beginning of ARR and having played that long i'm super ugh'd
i wouldnt mind a huge overhaul .-. also not a big fan of positionals bc for some fricking reason it's fun to have bosses spin around constantly in addition to having to run around the arena to stay out of aoes bleh bleh blehbleh blehhhp
not a fan of the combat system period, tbh
played wow before ffxiv was a think, then played ffxiv, then wow bc 1.0 was a heck, then ffxiv again for arr, and that's fine at all but btwn those two games it's like...exactly the same combat, almost
which gets
super boring.
but i love ffxiv. so i want to play it. i want to make friends with other nerds.
but i'M SO BORED OF THE COMABADFSTASD
too many buttons for smol hands and also the same style my entire gaming life has experienced
b to the o to the o-o-o

there's also the fact that i would like to SEE what's happening in the game, fight, w/e, instead of having to look at my 23240304 skills covering most of the screen
like
ffxiv can be super pretty, even prettier if you use shaders, but you don't really get to appreciate that a lot bc have to look at all dese buttons and watch for aoe and increasingly needing to watch the boss for signs of something you need to stay out of the way of which i like, that's fine, but not when i have to pay attn to 3-24-23-2t903094 buttons also. it's mostly a problem when you try to play something you haven't been maining. bc one job gets old after a while. but then you realize, at the end-level, you have to read like 3 essays on how to play optimally and that's a lot of info that makes it super hard to retain when you're a newb to the class dglllserdserg