Totally agree. It feels like the devs think the player base is stupid and incapable of learning a more complex rotation.

And the “button bloat” justifications are getting out of hand. The controller settings in this game are so accessible, even jobs with a lot of buttons like GNB in ShB wasn’t bad if you knew how to use R2+L2 and W-cross hotbars.

SMN went from having a complex rotation to now mostly pressing one button.

SAM without kaiten feels empty, and the kenki gauge feels incredibly boring because we no longer have to look at it aside from preventing overcap with ikishoten. Squeenix please, stop the oversimplification of jobs.