How do you define (meaningful) choice?

[TheDustyOne]

I had a friend of mine also who wanted the buffs aligned back in ShB, he instantly regretted it when he finished the first tier of Pandaemonium. He stopped playing after clearing DRS.

I myself didn't really care whether buffs were aligned or not back then, but now that I've had one of my favourite jobs reworked to fit into the 2 minute burst, I miss having them misaligned. The burst is just too potent that any job not taking advantage of it is deemed unviable, which in turn requires homogenizing them into a burst job to conform.

[ForsakenRoe]

which in turn requires homogenizing them into a burst job to conform.

This is the part that annoys me the most about the 2min design, everything HAS to burst at 2m to conform. If it doesnt, it has to be reworked so that it does ala PLD. Which means effectively, the devs write off an entire swathe of designspace (the 'sustained damage' profile), it's just needlessly limiting and means that we're ever more likely to hit 'we didn't know what to do with SCH', but on the other jobs too. How do you make each job gain interesting additions each expansion if so much of your damage is from the 2min window? Put more into the window? NIN's already unable to fit everything in there