Anyone else concerned by the extremely low skill ceiling?

[Enjuden]

You wanna back this up by something? The amount of skills is roughly the same, some skills like 1 button dots were removed but it's not like the dps rotations differ that much from heavensward, if anything they feel better now because of aforementioned reason.

Sure. Unlike now, Heavensward had no way of keeping anything melee wise, and there was no way to get it back except the hard way (except for nin, who only got even more complex since then).

When you needed to get out or drop uptime, you were screwed. Dragoon did not have the QoL of always being in range for Geirskogul, meaning it would actually miss the target and cast anyway if you attempted it at the full range. Jumps had far more animation lag than now as well, and no ranged attacks that you would ever want to be caught dead using. You also had to manage your time with Blood of the Dragon since you spent and earned time instead of always earning time. Monk has no Six Sided Star or Anatman in a time where there were tons of jumps from bosses, and mechanics that forced melee out of a fight.

Bard was a bowmage that nobody wanted to play but when played right, had a lot of damage to it. Lost all of its mobility for the sake of trying something different because every ranged class needed to be a mage. Machinist was easily the most complicated DPS job back then, and is still far more complex due to strict timing of GCD/oGCD timing, and if you screwed up your dps went into the toilet, with no way to ever recover from one mistake on Wildfire. By the way, there were procs for both and MCH relied entirely on procs to actually have dps

Your argument only holds up with Summoner, Ninja (which is getting reworked) and Black Mage, with Black Mage having to revert to 2.x rotations for various reasons. I didn't keep up with it enough to confirm it actually even used 3.x abilities.

Your move.