It's also hard for me to imagine an artist incorporating major elements (and duplicating the actual headgear) of the Scholar AF from multiple Final Fantasies, onto a non-Scholar AF. If SE ever wanted to add the Scholar job to FF14, they would need to almost completely change its look from past Final Fantasies.
It would be like if SE decided to add Blue Mage to FF14 first yet gave it Black Mage's iconic hat. Or maybe Corsair yet gave it a Dragoon-style headpiece. It doesn't make sense to me.
But, yes, nobody knows for sure. I would go as far as saying that everyone sees Scholar AF (because it's nigh-identical to FFXI's), but quite a few don't want to accept that it's being worn by a Scholar job.
