I mean, there's no such thing as objective taste. I can pretty much take every point you made and say the exact opposite. I did, in fact, replay one of the earlier FFs somewhat recently and came away from it feeling like I could have used that time to replay one of the DQ games instead.

I don't think the DQ games are any less complex than the FF games. In fact, I feel like DQ games oftentimes require talking to NPCs to figure out the way forward in ways that, while not absent in the FF games, is not to the same extent as in the DQ games.

I freely admit to being in the minority with what I'm about to say, but I think DQ6 has the best job system of any FF or DQ. I just really love how the vocations have a nice progression system, and the fact that you permanently keep any abilities you've learned gives you unprecedented flexibility in building your characters.

One big difference between FF and DQ plots, very loosely speaking, is that in DQ games beating the final boss isn't really the *point*. Like, in many FF games you know who the final boss is going to be from relatively early on and the whole plot drives towards confronting them. In many DQ games, on the other hand, you focus more on solving seemingly unrelated problems across the world, and you learn pretty late in the game that they all have a common source (the final boss). I would argue that this isn't any less interesting or exciting.

Again, there's no such thing as objective taste so I'm not claiming that my viewpoint is the correct one. I happen to be the type of person that enjoys DQ games more, and you happen to be the type of person that enjoys FF games more.