Guys, I think we have a problem here. If the game is so monotonous that we all are indistinguishable from AIs...isn't that a bad thing? I mean, the whole Simon Says thing. The whole "wash, rinse, repeat" thing. The whole "it's a dance" thing. Raids in this game are incredibly monotonous. Mechanics have no variety, no diversity. Everything's scripted to the second. You perform the same "dance" for hours on end until you get it. And if you die? You do it all over again. And then once you clear, you do the exact same thing again, week after week. Performing the same narrow set of actions for an extended time turns people into automatons. In other words, bots, just as OP described. That's why it's so easy for something like Cactbot, or worse, Miqobot, to replace human thinking: because there is no thinking required.

Now, I know about the tech debt. Square Enix can't design more complex raids because they're low on money, the engine is old, we all play for the story anyway, we're still better than WoW, etc. But, in 2023, is this really the best we could do? Or do you think that perhaps our hubris is a bit overdone at this point?