Why does this whole concept of "THE ANIMATIONS" revolve around the assumption that they didn't do a cost-benefit analysis of having it and decided it was better to drop the little stumble and strafe and just have us jog, walk, n' stop? Would opting to keep something we already have at the cost of desired progress not be a worse back-peddling?

And furthermore, if this breaks your game play experience, how the hell did you even make it this far into the Final Fantasy XIV Experience?

The poor quality of this game's origin has really given us quite the entitlement. If you went back to 2010 and told me that one day, the most rage in FFXIV would be caused by grass and strafing animations, you'd be laughed off the face of Eorzea.