Why doesn't pve have pvp combo structure?

[Raikai]

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At the end of the day, Job button culling is going to happen. Square makes it evidently clear not just in practice, but Yoshi-P himself has said passing quotes on the matter that they desire every job to be within a certain range of buttons. So the options are to let them condense rotations to hopefully avoid them touching actually interesting parts of our kit rather than the utterly mindless, mechanical, every player will have forged into muscle memory and never have to pay attention to part of their toolkit, or we keep combos uncondensed and it's guaranteed OGCDs and actually interesting parts of our toolkits will be getting cut.

Exactly. The nature of the MMO structure that XIV follow, the same of WoW, practically requires some kind of rework at some point, because else, the players would end with either an unmanageable amount of abilities.

I don't even think the PVP combo style is watered down. Honestly it has the same amount of engagement, the difference is that it doesn't spread across your keyboard. Plus, thinking on the other side, the pvp combo style would vacate space for a more interesting type of complexity, which is space for new mechanics without having to rework old ones.