It seems to be good combat for single player game which you will play for few dozens of hours (out of which you will be in combat only for fraction of that time), but it will get boring really quick.

Even though FFXIV's combat can be pretty brain dead, it's still miles ahead of this "DMC5, but for toddlers". If I wanted 1 button for attack, 1 for dodge, and few others for flashy fluff, I could pick dozens of decent AAA games. But there is not many games with classic MMORPG combat, like WoW, L2, FFXIV and few others have.