Personally I think a full auto attack system is more work than needed. I do admit we need a toggle of sort but I like manual input for a lot of situations. I'll admit it's a disadvantage for gamepad users, however at the same time I always felt like using a gamepad was more toruble than it's worth since you'd have to put it down to type a message or use an awful onscreen keyboard.

I really don't see why people complain about the 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 thing so much either, mages had to use cures manually in XI all the time and nobody cried about it then.