Quote Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne View Post
Not a SAM main myself.

Although if I were to look at their arsenals & their rotations, I'd think they would merge Shoha+Shoha II and/or Guren+Senei into single button. Since you can only use one of them at a time, they could've combined it and add damage fall off for balancing purpose.

But that's assuming their sole reason is to reduce button bloat. Apparently they also wanted to reduce performance gap, henceforth Kaiten becomes the more appealing option.
It does feel like they want to cut down the skill ceiling on jobs. I just think that the design of the job system in FFXIV was never modularly built to begin with and that means adjusting what that floor and ceiling should be is rather painful. Basically, the system is designed to add skills individually as someone levels up rather than a cohesive block, so people don't get a cohesive but simple set of abilities at each milestone with time to practice. Recently went back to help people through PoTD floors 1-50 and felt the pains of having to get partially unlocked skill chains going all the way up to floor 40.