Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
That's kinda the whole idea. You're not supposed to be the best at everything. Part of the point of merits was to specialize. That said, People in general spent more time playing multiple jobs than SE thought we would, thus it makes sense to be a little less restrictive so we can spec in a few jobs instead of one, possibly two.
The point of the merit system is to force people to specialize, while the point of the job system is that you don't have to specialize. They've always been at odds, this is just taking one more step towards rectifying the issue. Shared categories shouldn't have a category cap.