Does FF14 have a button bloat problem?

[Ronduwil]

Have you considered playing MOBAs?

I don't like PvP. I used to play and create custom WC III scenarios that acted pretty much like a single player MOBA. I really liked the first Guild Wars because I could build my own custom OP specs that could decimate stuff with a handful of buttons. I was even sharing some of my builds for a while until I won a Guild Wars PvP template contest on the IGN forums only to see my favorite skills nerfed into oblivion. Sadly, modern games don't provide that kind of flexibility because crowd-sourced OP builds became too prevalent. Now, everyone worked around that issue by providing fixed rotations, so of course players complain that there's no challenge to be had. They have to create challenge in some way, and now that building your own optimized rotation is no longer an option, button bloat seems to be the way to go. I'm lamenting the situation, but I'm not complaining about it. I understand why it is the way it is. That doesn't mean I have to like it, though.