I just want a FF11 modern game.

[BigCheez]

My one problem is that the interface and controls should be more modern. Unless there's mods for that, too.

There are addons that can create hotbars or something very similar to XIV's crosshotbar but the original controls are honestly fine once you get used to them. They just feel unintuitive at first to people who are coming from modern games because the game was created long before these things were standardised. It's like using a website that was built before UX conventions like hamburger and ... menus had been developed. Everything works, it just isn't designed the way that you're familiar with.