In a new interview with Final Fantasy XIV's lead combat designer Masaki Nakagawa, Nakagawa talked about the improvements and changes the gameplay has undergone and the team's attempt to avoid making the gameplay too complex and confusing for players, but he criticized the fact that this process sometimes removes elements that make the player more interactive and entertaining.
The team voting system was designed to avoid complicating the gameplay, but the result was an environment that made it easier to eliminate any interesting ideas about gameplay mechanics, making the experience more repetitive, something that players felt, but Nakagawa confirmed that this philosophy changed with the Dawntrail expansion, which was well received by players towards those changes.