I remember when they took these away from us, it was a 'wonderful' surprise on the beta forums. Yoshida wrote a long post about why, and balancing, etc..mostly said, iirc, to prevent class stacking that was a big issue in 1.0.

However, I would have preferred if they kept it but figured out an alternative way to prevent class stacking. Meh, people are gonna do it anyway..and they do. Folks denying it I guess forgot about the WP spamming with 'blm only' and then we had the Brayflox spamming with "BLM, BRD" only. But hey...what do I know?