A core component of FF is missing (now) from 14

[Chiru_Kai]

You're right in that it doesn't use Bind or Silence much, likely because unless it is as a punishment for failing a mechanic, it just feels bad. EDIT: I'm pretty sure the complaints about the Strayborough expert dungeon is from the first boss... which has lots and lots of minions that apply "Bind" for 3 seconds and "Silence" for another 8 if you fail their mechanic.

But there's plenty of DOTs, plenty of stuns, plenty of gaze mechanics, all the time? In all the fights.

Any sort of DOT is one of the most prolific status effects in the game these days. Whether it's poison, bleed, or fire. Current EX1 has a *permanent DOT* on everyone, uncleansable, for the last half of the fight.
In fact they sometimes combine tank-specific DOTs with a tank-specific vuln-up status effect to punish any attempt at cheesing a tankbuster with invulnerability. So that if they take two hits, and get the vuln-up, and a heavy DOT bleed, then they can invuln all they want but a single tick of the bleed after invuln ends will do 100k damage per tick so... yeah they ded. Very noticeable in P5S and EX1

Pandemonium savage has *so many* status effects to pay attention to, that I had to specifically go into my HUD settings to grab the UI element and put it at 200% to keep track of stuff. Snakes being quite 'fun' for this where you also have to look at your party member debuffs. Or how about countdown timers for when you're gonna get an AOE dropped on your head? I think there's a couple EW extremes that make liberal use of those.

Dawntrail normal raid also has status effects. 2nd raid: you get a maximum of 3 hearts. It fills up, you're charmed and stunned in place. You can still survive things, but healers have to pay attention. They usually don't, so people who fill up this bar will die. Also poison DOTs.
Third raid? you get hit twice you're stunned for a few seconds.
Fourth raid? pretty sure doing mechanics wrong leads to a cleansable paralysis effect and a DOT. Healers can esuna this. And I think players can just bring Spine Drops themselves for this if they want.
I suspect that savage will go even more nuts with this (I hope so)


And this is just off the top of my head, there's plenty more.