I've spent the last few days thinking my position through a bit more. As i've thought it through and read the discussion id like to add: By "remove every existing raid buff" I think it would work as a blank slate. Every current raidbuff is removed so the devs have 21 jobs with no party buffs so they can totally reevaluate how they want each job to function as it pertains to buffs/burst windows. For example, let's say they decide they want bard to be totally buff focused. 75% of bard's damage contribution to a party is done via its songs which it sustains over the span of a fight, not in short windows. This means a few things to start: 1. Bard no longer has any need to have a burst window as most of its contribution is via the party. 2. Bard can have a more sustained damage rotation similar to how it was in say, stormblood. 3. They can radically change how songs work. No longer would bard have to rotate between three songs to build up to radiant finale. Now one song can grant party members extra main stat for a few seconds and the bard can extend the song using its rotation. One song can be a flat crit increase. One song can have a tiny chance to decrease party member's personal cooldowns like bloodfest or manafication. Stuff like that.

On that note, because now dedicated 2min burst windows aren't a thing they devs can give jobs passives that reset personal cooldowns. Say SAM: Every iaijutsu has a chance to reset ogi namikiri's cooldown. Something like that wouldn't work at all now because if it happened at an inopportune time then your rotation would be completely thrown off the rest of the fight. In a world where buff windows either didn't exist or weren't remotely as consequential that could work and would be fun.

For the record, I think the majority of the issue with 2min's isn't "oh waah i have to press battle litany every two minutes". It's just the raw number of buffs that are on two minute cooldowns. If you have a comp of SCH, AST, DRG, NIN, RDM, and BRD that's eight 2 minute buffs. 8. Thats an insane amount of compounding damage buffs every two minutes. If they took some and put them on one minute buffs or even 30sec's for a few, that would go a long way to help.