ffxiv everything designed wrong about this game

[Rumpelstiltzkin]

I don't know if the system OP suggests is better, but I definitely agree the class/job system in this game is a mess and should be remade completely. I doubt it ever will be, but it is quite funny how they more or less scrapped everything from 1.0 (with good reason), but decided to keep one with such a large impact on the game even though it was as bad as it was/is. Yoshi P has done a lot of good (albeit not all to my tastes), but keeping the class/job system was one of the biggest mistakes.

[kyuven]

but keeping the class/job system was one of the biggest mistakes.

In retrospect it is, but they clearly had ideas for it that ended up getting scrapped in the long haul as shown by the SMN/SCH split and the way WAR and PLD are set up.
It's a shame, but if I had a penny for every idea from an MMO that seemed like a cool idea at the time but ended up hurting the game in the long run, I'd never need to worry about paying for a sub on any game I play ever again.