Yes I agree that for a pary that it is just a zerg fest. Now what SE should have done is used the FFXI combat system and used it in FFXIV and improved on it but they didnt. All that was done was add a bar with limits on what you could add to it. So now SE has added a combo system, and I personaly think its just lame, I would rather have skill chains and magic burst but FFXIV isnt set up for this kind of battle system.
It all boils down to the fact that the original team who started development on it did not want any of it to be like FFXI and that was a big mistake. What they have done is just another WoW clone knock-off/wanna be, in the combat department. Now hopefully in 2.0 the new development team will use the battle system from FFXI but thats highly doubtful. DoW and DoM battle command bar seems like its cheap, cheesy or whatever you want to call. It seems that they just toss the bar in with no creativity because it was easy to do, there is no creativity in it at all.