Turning DRK into a tank was a huge mistake.

[Kaedan94]

Bunch of poor arguments

Heavy armor and high HP in the early FF games made that character a tank. Your issue is that you're applying strict MMO definitions to non-MMO games.

Cecil was the party "tank" throughout the entire game, both when he was a DRK and PLD. Leon was a "tank" in FF2. Gafgarion was a tank.

There wasn't a such thing as enmity, so the MMO concept of "controlling threat" didn't exist in past games. So the aspect of a tank that matters is high HP and high defense. Something that ALL DRKs had in all previous FFs.