Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Sounds about right yeah, SAM and RDM are both fairly simple, with RDM being the easiest of the 2, but they both require Stormblood and a lvl 50 and they start at 50 which can be a bit tough for newer players since you kinda want to sit down and read all your skills and stuff. I'd say SAM is easier to play when you're used to the game, but being a melee you have more stuff to dodge, lower GCD to think of your next move and positionals to deal with, so RDM turns out easier in the end I think.

Out of the older classes, MNK is probably the simplest, but it's not that easy. Every attack is a positional and while the rotation is simple, it's not THAT obvious, although you can an unoptimal really easy rotation. Once you learn the rotation however it flows very well and there's no proc to look for or random elements(only your 5pt combo thing that generates automatically and when it's ready it does a ding noise and then you press the button to punch with it during a GCD, nothing hard).

Dragoon rotation is quite a mess and it doesn't help you constantly have to change it as you level up plus the animation lock jumps can be deadly. Blackmage is pretty simple at first but it gets more complicated and endgame BLM damage optimization is super annoying. SMN is also hard to optimize, although iirc the basic rotation isn't that bad, but have to keep track of dots and counters for stuff to line up and what not, plus you have to babysit your pet a little bit(fight specific).

MCH and BRD are pretty intensive gameplay and require paying attention to a bunch of other stuff like dot duration, procs and support abilities(especially on BRD you have to keep track of the tank health and cooldowns to use yours efficiently in the middle of your complicated damage rotation).

Live letter going on, some details on various stuff:

Housing, they'll add 6wards(from 12 to 18) with subwards for each as usual so a 50% overall increase. They're also locking individual buying houses for a little while(I'd expect a week) so FCs can buy them(might be specific for only large houses not sure). They're also restricting houses to 1FC house and 1 individual house per account(rather than per char like it is currently) and finally they're adding a timer when you leave a house to prevent/make it hard to sell houses(currently leaving is instant so the buyer can just grab it right away and the transaction is easy but I'd assume they'll make it takes a few days/maybe a week, which would make it hard to sell stuff especially if the counter is visible since anyone could see the plot and camp it).

New Sigmascape raid is FF6 themed. 1st boss is Ghost Train, 2nd boss seems to be a gimmick fight inspired from Relm's ability Sketch, 3rd is apparently Atma Weapon and 4th is in all likelihood Kefka since Dancing Mad kept playing during the live letter, with I assume the crazy final fight form in savage.

They've shown Byakko who interestingly isn't a tiger, but a guy with a tiger floating around him.

Other random changes, chocobo saddle(70additional slots, unclear on the conditions), fashion contest once a week for MGP rewards+special rewards, new UI option to adjust the sound of abilities and voice for other characters(no more catgirl yaa spam) then the usual patch stuff.

You can filter out tells, works the same as an ignore all. Might as well join a random FC though, if only for the free TP and the FC buffs, there's no penalty on leaving a FC afaik.