And yet here we are still spamming 1-2-3 just without DA. Instead of giving something interesting to do Square instead doubled down on the boring design. MP management was way easier than it was in HW sure, but you still had to be careful about what you were spamming as it was still easy to bottom out your magic. Killing our haste buff with blood weapon was also a terrible idea.

MP is harder to generate, but we barely have anything to spend it on. As long as you keep at least 6,000 MP in reserve you can basically spam whatever you want when it comes to the shadow moves and still easily have enough to use TBN when necessary. We basically have nothing to manage anymore other than dark side which it ridiculously easy to keep up. One combo, nothing to manage, a shallow tool kit, I’m just not seeing the complexity you’re referring to.