This topic is extremely relevant, and I firmly believe that they could "fix it" or fundamentally change this design for a better one with almost no development resources. It seems to me that Yoshida could just go talk to the right guy and bam the next hotfix update would make everyone's gameplay better by 1000%. I know that Yoshida is overly cautions (specially with client calculated information) but there is not a single con to changing it. It just like in ARR you couldn't change jobs anywhere in the world (it has to be a settlement or a city) because he feared that could get abused (which time has proven that was not the case). Or when Yoshida was extremely reluctant to reset cds after a wipe because, well people will abuse it!. The latter was a major quality of life for the game and having the server not overwrite the client's own animation lock timing would be an even bigger change that would put this game into the next level of gameplay.