I can understand why you'd be bummed that you can't access the new hw content with your friends. It's like being Charlie from Charlie in the the chocolate factory and he's watching the kids at the shop eat all of the goodies from the outside window. Dunno how far you are in the story, but I got more into it as time went on. If you don't like it so much now you might like it a lot more later down the road.

I do have to agree with one part of se's gating of hw, it's related to what one of the above posters already stated. I haven't started many of my new jobs yet, but the new ones seem to have a bit higher of a learning curve tagged to them. It's most likely a combination of them being brand new and everyone learning to optimize them yet, but the classes are going to be easier to learn if you already know the battle system and what's expected of you from previous experience with the pre existing jobs. Anyone could pick them up, but it'll be easier in skilled hands.