Its ffxiv combat really so slow and boring?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

It's actually more like 111, 222, 333, with oGCDs throw in between and whatever other abilities you have. The current system we have now doesn't require any more thought into it than the pvp combos do, they just require more buttons. Before you've pressed your 1, 2, or 3, you already predetermined what your second and third button presses are going to be.

And yet a primary complaint amongst healers is their DPS rotation consists of spamming 1 endlessly. A good number want the old HW skills back just so they have more buttons to push. Reducing our combos to a single button negates the feeling of a combo entirely. You're just spamming the same key, which gets repetitive. It may not seem like much but it's a big reason fighting games have you enter different button sequences. It's a physiological thing. For a lot of people simply moving their fingers from 1234 gives the illusion of a more engaging system. This is why so many people despise Stormblood PvP right now. And it's failure is why I don't see them porting over the combo consolidation.