It's been funny but enough is enough

[Shurrikhan]

is that not what it does? I press tab and it targets an enemy, I press tab again it targets a different enemy

Other tab targeting systems often have more sophisticated scripting that allows it not to be instantly jumbled up by targets switching positions left-right very briefly. XIV's doesn't, or at least not in so nearly polished a way, which it largely why it ends up notoriously bad for, say, melee moving about for positionals and/or during PvP.

Its cycling is neither quite intuitive, as it's not quite always a strafing or angular movement from the prior target, nor quite reliable.

Is that going to be an issue for a caster in PvE 95% of the time? No. But that's a millimeter high bar.



Now, if someone's annoyed that it isn't targeting the nearest enemy each time... that's why there's a separate "Target Nearest Enemy" button that we can keybind as we please. (Middle mouse, in my case, and more often used than Cycle Target when playing melee or in PvP.)