DPS Simplification - Just do Ultimates!

[HikariKurosawa]

You should probably bring out hard evidence of the "vast majority" hating DoT-focused playstyles because XIV's aversion to such has always felt more like the devs just not wanting to have to balance around something with significantly different mechanics.

It's right in front of you. The game is a business, decisions are made based on what is profitable. Dots are basically at the bare minimum of implementation. They still exist, but they barely exist. If dots were actually as popular as you imply they would be extremely prolific because it would increase player engagement and therefore increase the profit of the game. Capitalism is pretty convenient you know? You can assess what is popular really easily because the Devs will structure the game around what people like the most. They have to.

Now, would I object to them adding a dot job that actually makes sense? No. It would be cool if they added a bio mage or something along those lines. I wouldn't play it, but there is a demographic that isn't really being pandered to and I think it could be cool. It's likely to be added later rather than sooner, but they're running out of other jobs to implement so maybe next expansion it is a possibility. SMN should never have been the dot mage, it made zero sense thematically.