Quote Originally Posted by hagare View Post
that doesn't really mean it'll only happen because of consolidation.
In fact, it would support the need for consolidation even more.
Because it means that new skills are expected to be added.
Because those added buttons can take the spot of the consolidated buttons.
But, do we expect more skills to be added, let alone the kind that'd deserve their own buttons if we were already partly targeting of button efficiency in giving the option for consolidating inflexible combos?

Apart from at most a single goodie per job, Shadowbringers and Endwalker did little more than recycle old buttons, trimming some bloat (Invigorate, etc.) and some vital capacities in favor of generic extensions of old skills or low-depth 'options' like AoE | ST shared variants of shared resource/CD skills.