Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
a) Sorting and finding: ...by caching the contents of the retainer in the client without polling the retainers in real time...
The lack of client side caching is one of the biggest disappointments of the FFXIV UI, and lack of an UI modding platform. Not only just searching, with modding it's even possible to do very advanced sorting or custom grouped sorting (like always putting gear of the same set together) and other kind of item grouping. An abstract layer of consolidated inventory management.

Even without modding, there's such a big opportunity for local caching that could have been done on the PC. But because PS3/4, it's a no-no god-forbidden sin.

I wish the devs would think hard about allowing QoL differences between PS4 and PC versions in terms of UI features.