How would you feel if they scrapped the current "classes"?

[Demacia]

Well you can switch to using a bow when you need to use a bow.

You have to disengage the mob in order to do so, but in FFXI it drained your TP to zero too, so it's not like you weren't sacrificing anything in that situation either.

In FFXI I could just shoot it with my bow, then melee it when it got close, without losing TP. As SAM/RNG I could use the TP building abilities and melee weapon skills of Samurai combined with the great ranged abilities and powerful bow weapon skills of Ranger. I can't do that in XIV.

You've made it clear that you never played FFXI.