Why does the new inventory UI show less items on Expanded than before?

[Sindele]

Come on. Seriously? 5x7 sounded like a great thing when I assumed it'd be displaying all 4 panels on one screen. I shouldn't be losing real estate from the *most used panel in the game* purely for reasons of symmetry.

E: Hahaha this makes retainers 3 pages now too. Who thought this was necessary or desirable? This is a step straight backwards in terms of UX.

E2: Copying my followup post from page 7:

So, for those who haven't seen it, the FFXIV reddit has a translated post from the Lead UI Designer Hiroshi Minagawa on the new layout. (I'm not going to reiterate it here, go read it if you're curious.)

While I understand and accept the technical limitations, I still have to confess that I'm in the camp of those who can't accept it as it is. It's certainly the right technical decision to make, but the burden the current (and still-incomplete) solution imposes upon what is essentially the most vital component of the MMO user experience during the time it will take to implement a superior display solution is a bitter pill to be told to swallow, and I'm not convinced that we couldn't have continued on with a long-term insufficient but short-term superior setup until the new one was more robustly featured.