Frustrating Design

[Squintina]

There are a lot of poor design choices in this game when it comes to items and menus.

People have complained about these many times over the past years and nothing is done, so it seems we're stuck with them.

On top of the ones you mentioned there's also:
Can't accept party/linkshell invites while doing [enter just about anything that has a menu here]
Can't use a variety of items while mounted or doing [enter just about anything that has a menu here]
Can't start a leve while mounted
Can't do fully bulk repairs
Can't dye or unglamour while in inn
Many bulk exchanges that don't exist (*cough* potd hoards*cough*), making people waste time just handing in items over and over and over. The only one that's tolerable is the Diadem one because at least that one has "next" button that's easy to spam click.

Pretty much every day something makes me go "ah....SE...."

I put up with it because I like the game as a whole, but I do wish sometimes that they'd do a whole patch just with QOL improvements and nothing else.

People will white-knight individual things because individually they're not that bad. But as a whole, there's so many of them and it's just so frustrating, especially when other games don't have these obvious and basic QOL issues and it's like "how did they not notice how annoying this would be....".