I Macro my Tier 1 spells, and non-essential skills.
So my Hot bar is 1:Thundaga, 2:Thundara, 3:Fira, 4:Firaga, 5:Freeze(cause pending on tank im always pushing red at times) then i have my timers 7: parsimony 8ark seal 9:Resonance 0:Excrutiate. 5/6 i toggle between what i need at the time of run. this way i can hit my Macro for Tier 1, and see on hot bar my combo tiers are ready, and I know when i can pop my enhancements when they come off cooldown. Macro's will almost always be faster than controller. maybe not by much. hell you can even say by .3 seconds, but You get instant gratification. Pushing down over over, when a spell misses, or something happens and you need to get to that blizzaga real fast, or find your sleep. its more versitile. if all goes perfect, you can use controller and tap right along with your "ideal setup" and not loose anytime, but when in a pinch, and sleep is hot bar 5, and your in your combo and hotbar 1, your risk chance of panic mode overshot of clicking over, or having to swap down or up. pending that you know your macro's eyes free from playing to much FFXI back in the day. When i main whm, i feel slower and more frantic trying to get my cures off, as BLM trying to spam as much spells as possible not so much cause timers make up for having to swap up or down, left or right. I think there is more quick versitility, but in a no suprises fight, controller can sit on par. though as a heavy Macro user, I would like to see 1 alt/cntrl macro set for each job. though i find it faster to use hotbar when it comes to more weapon skills. Hence the "Alt 2" thunder, tap 8, tap 2, for my thunder, darkseal thundara combo, then i can tap 7 for parsimony and hit thundaga. though a controller user could have it set up in a line, Thunder, darkseal, thundara, parsimony,thundaga and not loose a beat on Keyboard user, but if I guess, as i think about it, if you can find the ideal setup perhaps cntrl would be just as fast. Though the ability to have a timer list on the side, would help improve both cntrl and macro/keyboard users while saving real estate on screen.
But i do feel the way, Macro's are not as useful as FFXI, but I only utilize hotbar 1, because hitting up to get to hotbar 3 is just not in the symetrics of my brain, I tend to wanna go down twice to hotbar three, instead of pushing up 1, and i end up over shooting going to fast and end up on wrong hotbar, pushing wrong action command.