Don't know why people are still defending SE and FFXIV when other MMO are brought up.
Point of the matter, whatever "lag" happens in those "other" games, it's not game breaking. If anything, it's trivial and when it happens, I just laugh as it's that rare and funny when it happens.

In FFXIV, you lag all the time. Doesn't matter how awesome your connection is. You have internal delays/positioning check points and other nonsense going on, on top of the animation delays (Hi, my name is Hallowed Ground, you're still dying to that spell, Lol!) and random lag spikes/poor connections. And if you're a Verizion user, forget it, just stop right there.

Doesn't matter if you complete content/are able to dodge stuff, etc. I am capable of doing so no problem. But it is way more than obvious that this game has some major issues (Thus this massive thread).
If you can simply open your eyes and see the glaring issue, you'll see that all of these issues being resolved/addressed, would only make the game better and would not harm you nor the game at all.

However, the fact that Yoshida is so hell bent on using these issues as an excuse for "difficulty" and "balance", I doubt we'll see much addressed/resolved any time soon.
Not unless the bunch of you stop praising this nonsense and start bringing this issue to his attention more often, as we all should.