The majority of players aren't doing raid content, and are not affected by raid buff management to begin with. I can say that I've seen a lot of complaints about gameplay simplifications from people who actually participate in raid content, and removing raid buffs are a definite simplification.

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I understand that you're keen to play freestyle WAR, and you still can under the current conditions. Don't worry, the job intrinsically allows you to work on your personal expression/'build variety' however you choose to smash the keys together. You do you.

The point being made here is that the original complaint around the 'two-minute meta' was that it simplified gameplay. Your proposed solution to eliminate raid buffs altogether is an even bigger simplification.

You can try to alter raid buff window timings to an extent, but current raid content is designed to allow full uptime while doing mechanics, and there's always the risk of pushing an existing buff window into an intermission phase without targets. Just do the mechanics, it's not a big deal.