Gauges, HUD, and other attempts to bring the DPS floor up, won't work

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Is this really going to work? I'm watching this three farking hour long video from the so called live letter something that someone pointed me to for info on the new expansion (didn't know these they had regular videos like this), and I'm slowly coming to grips with the design mentality behind the changes. The tldr reason seems to be, 'we're streamlining, simplifying, condensing, abilities, cross class actions, etc and moving to a more visual HUD to bring the DPS floor up from the 30%+ difference between the noobs and the pros.'

Pardon my oversimplification, but is this really going to work? Has anyone ever thought, man, my DPS would suck less if I only had a giant graphical representation of my skill timers taking up a chunk of the middle of my screen! Are the rere's really going to stop being really bad at their job just because some logo starts flashing red and blinking screaming 'use your damn cool-down/combo abilities now!'?

This will turn into a wall, but I've spent a lot of years playing MMO's of various kinds and it really seems that when dev's try to overcome basic human stupidity that it just doesn't end well for anyone. That said I do like one aspect of this change is that it will reduce the action bloat that has crept into the game and I like not having to level up random classes just to get the stupid cross class ability I need and then proceed to ignore that class because I never ever intend to play it.

Things that won't be fixed by adding HUD elements, reducing ability bloat, actions, etc:

-raise the dps floor
-what's a chocobo? - by a level 60 DK
-how does teleport work? You mean I don't have to keep walking back to Idleshire all the way from Gridania every time I die?
-Where the * are the dungeons? What do you mean I have to do the main story quests? You can't tell me how to play! Questing is for noobs! If I wanted to quest, I wouldn't have spent all these months killing mobs in the world! And why does nothing drop loot when I kill it? I'm still in greys but I keep seeing all these players in blues, where do they drop? Besides I'm saving the quests for my alt.
-You know what the problem is with this game? I can't find the auction house in the major cities. I keep seeing these market boards, but the game won't let me use them.
-Wiping constantly to Proto-Ultima in DS.
-by a 60 ACN: What's a job stone? Why do my heals suck? Why can't I summon my fairies?
-Ice mages

Good luck devs!

Edit: its not the size of the HUD UI that's the problem, its that it won't fix anything. The problem with people putting out really low numbers has nothing to do with the UI, its the player.
Further Edit: To avoid double posting, here's my response to your comments here, with screenshot of the slide in question, that I'm basing my entire argument off of.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4165458

Final Edit: OMG, you guys win! I concede! I concede!
YoshiP is totally on to this whole visual representation will fix the Extreme DPS difference. Holy crap, because I had to post this image to explain myself:


May the new HUD fix all the DPS problems!