Except it's not going to happen - FFXI never had it's fundamental systems altered throughout any of it's five expansion packs other than the addition of new content. Patches usually tweaked and altered things though.

The fact is, SE are not going to completely scrap the Armoury System - it would result in too much of the game having to be changed as well (it would render the Guilds redundant, the quest lines that are connected to them - hell, the whole beginning of the game for a new player would have to be changed as well, seeing as one of the first things you have to do is to visit the Guild of your starting class and sign up with them).

Accept it, they're not scrapping the existing classes, they're not changing SMN to be like FFXI's version, they're not changing the egis to be full size Primals. Just accept that and move on, or leave the game and go play FFXI, because what you want SMN to be, will never occur in this game.