If two people want polar opposite things, sometimes you can't please everyone. This is the case in the FFXIV community.
  • "Please balance my job with another job!" SE complies
  • "Why did you homogenize my job with another job?" SE sighs
  • "Please make content easier, it's too hard" SE makes it easier
  • "Please make content harder, it's too easy" SE makes it harder
  • "Please make content easier, it's too hard" SE sighs
You can find plenty more examples like that of the contradiction in the community and the problem SE has obviously had increasingly as the playerbase has grown and become more fractured and polarized.

Quote Originally Posted by Angeldust View Post
Not rocket science how to please everyone with things like story interactions.
Depends on the cut scene technology, but it would be nice if interactions had more choice like SWTOR. It would be a lot to go back and change that at this point though.
With jobs: the solution to all the problems here of "people don't like it this way, so we change it this way then those people don't like it endless cycle... bs"
This is what I was getting at.
The solution to this is rather simple if you don't like how it was originally designed don't play it
Actually, the solution would be to give people a choice between play styles. Which is an opportunity they may have in 8.0 if they go with talents, skill trees and ability points.

if you want to please party a and b then the next solution is when you remove you also create.
It has seemed to be a problem that they just removed things over the years and never really replaced it. Not that the things they removed were relevant to most people ie. TP, elemental stats, etc. But it has started to make it noticeable how overly streamlined everything is now, while what was removed gave the illusion of a game with a lot of potential avenues at least.
when you remove all the dots from summoner you should always create a new job that is 100% on that system for those that love it
They still could. To be fair, Bard exists, except it's not a caster. Since they have been moving away from DoTs, I'm not sure how else they'd do it beside copying the Bard model for a caster, since the other methods trap it in a sustained rotation which they stopped due to burst windows.