I’m primarily a keyboard and mouse player of my games, and I played 14 like that from ARR’s launch. But then I had an issue where I had to stay on a couch for most of the day for several weeks and I couldn’t get to my PC. Wound up playing EW on my PS4 and I hope the cross hot bar system earned whoever came up with it a promotion cus it really is amazingly robust. Especially once I created the macros I wanted for my ui and learned that you can essentially create nested menus using unshared, base class hotbars. I set up some targeting macros to let me easily select party members 1-8 with just two button presses instead of cycling thru a list, for instance.

Keyboard + controller is now my go to mode, except for jumping puzzles which I still find much easier with a mouse and wasd movement.