Quote Originally Posted by Yasuhiro View Post
You mean a system that's always been in Final Fantasy since Japanese releases? The numbered system was only in FF1, II(IV) and III(VI) Because of space limitations and FFVII because that translation was mediocre. Ra/Ga/Ja is the proper naming convention for these spells even Record Keepers FFXIV events uses them. Koji Fox obviously didn't have faith in the playerbases intelligence if he thought they couldn't get their head around suffixes
"A system that has always been in place, except when it hasn't been. Truly an unforgivable crime against our timeless and unshakeable traditions"

To be more direct: It's pretty much a completely arbitrary value judgement either way.