Somehow this patch has made me far more frustrated with FFXIV then I have been in some time. I fear that they think this targeting is now fixed, and will not revisit it anytime soon.

I won't get any actual feedback from Devs even though I've posted in Official forums (in General and Bugs/glitches), and at the official FFXIV Support suggestions page.

I don't know why they even added UP/DOWN party targeting since it dissapears when you begin to cast a spell, forcing you to use LEFT/RIGHT, without the highlighting on the party list.

I'm in a 4 person party and I can't find the player who is being hit before they die. This is vey sad.

Another option is to add <p1> <p2> etc. text targeting commands from FFXI.