Anyone else concerned by the extremely low skill ceiling?

[Samsta]

There are more jobs than just BRD that were simplified to the point of being braindead. DRK and WAR also come to mind here. Upkeep of GL on MNK is a joke now. Positionals on the job are a joke now. ShB made just about every job overly simplistic, and we have people making threads still to advocate for making things even MORE simple (see the recent thread about how DNC’s Flourish is apparently difficult to use).

Ehh, I can agree with you on WAR and DRK, I haven't really played monk myself, but the upkeep GL was never something you really could affect, most of the time it would either fall off because of too long transition or not, having it not fall off is more of a QoL change than anything. Saying that "every job" is overly simplistic is a huge stretch. Compare heavensward ninja, dragoon, black mage and summoner to their current versions, are they really simpler in any significant way? They have received as much new stuff as they have lost, if not more. And that is the heavensward version, the 2.x version of every job was the most simple version of that job hands down, it was a heavensward version minus 5 abilities. EDIT: Oh and paladin has only gotten more busy with the expansions, 3.x paladin was still pretty much 123 job with 1 dot, now it has a magic phase in it's rotation.