Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
/isearch helps with finding items. its pretty potent IMO.

As for handing over items for quests isntead of it just doing it for you. Devs commented on that, it was an immersion thing, done deliberately.
The item search functionality, from what I recall, identifies what general inventory area something's in (Retainer, whatnot), but there's a lot of space within those (especially if people seeking more inventory space have their way with things). Searching through seven inventory grids in the Retainer, even with the larger viewstyle, takes time.

As for your other point, keep in mind when reading the following that I'm being critical of the XIV development team and its decisions, not you; I'm aware it comes off as somewhat harsh, and don't want you to feel attacked =)

Just because something was done deliberately doesn't mean it's a good idea. The atrocious clipping we see on virtually any longer hairstyle was an intentional decision, too, and it still sucks. To be sure, in general, it's not a major issue, but man does it get irritating when doing things like Ixal quest turn-ins. I think it makes sense for handling certain non-Key items (for instance, it wouldn't be good if you went to turn in a Grand Company item and had it yank a piece of gear you're using out of your Armoire, or use a NQ version when you wanted to use a high-quality version), but for single-purpose quest items like the Ixal stuff, or KIs? Yeah, no. FFXIV isn't terribly immersive as-is; creating inconvenient systems (without even an option to toggle the behaviour) to add some slight subjective boost to it is bad design.