Does FF14 have a button bloat problem?

[Bearded]

Coming from ESO where the hotbar is 5 skills plus and ultimate there could be considered to be a bit of a bloat indeed. However there are only a few skills that I never or rarely use on my RDM.

I think FFXIV, like many MMORPGS fell into the "skill each level or couple of levels" trap that resulted in a bloat which they tried to counteract with the pruning but it's bloating up again.

Rather than remove the bloat though I'd prefer they change the way sync works - it should not remove the knowledge you have of skills, it should let you use all the skills you have unlocked but just adjust the impact of those skills based upon the levelsync.

There is nothing more boring than having only one or two skills open to you when you run that low level duty yet again. Allowing the higher level abilities (but withs correctly scaled down damage) this would show newcomers what they can aspire to unlock as they progress along their character path too.