The only advantage spec gives is saving the time leveling a different job. That's it. It doesnt make any sense to add a truckload of dev time to let you do everything on a single job via spec when one of the games primary selling points and unique system is litterally: you can level multiple jobs one 1 char.

Yet in the same breath there's all this talk of copying from wow to much but wanting to dilute one of the primary differences and become even more wowish.

The logic around here makes no sense. I'm sorry you guys wanted drk to be a dps and nin to be a tank like xi. They arent. Reinventing the entire game (when history has repeatedly shown it to be a downgrade) to indulge these little things isn't worth it.