I see PLing as an "easy way out". it makes challenging battles or even battles that are normal, even more easy. And to the point, no one has to try. Granted, I'm still fairly new to FFXIV even though I've had it for a while (kind of on and off). In FFXI, if there was a PL, the tank didn't have to learn to keep hate, the WHM didn't have to learn restraint and how to balance MP, The Puller didn't have to be careful with links, and so on. In some rare cases, parties were made up of nothing but random classes, no healer and relied heavily on the PL. Didnt always work as planned. Now I agree that it takes common sense to use your character effectively and some research too. (I did a lot of research to play a THF well with the right gear.) And PL isn't such a horrible thing, but to me it feels like people being lazy. And if you're PLed all the time, then you can become "spoiled". I saw a lot of that in FFXI, I would actually turn down invites because people would think that if they had a PL, they could take on anything and not need a decent party set up. I just think people should not rely on PLing too much.