@Naoki Yoshida-> Make Samurai a Tank class!

[KerenRhys]

Well... Who's to say we would even get a job for each role in this expansion? When talking about heavensward jobs, Yoshida talked about how his dev team didn't want to do 3 jobs per expansion anymore because it was too much work. Saying this now though... I want ATLEAST 3 new jobs per expansion but it seems like we may be getting only 2. Completely possible that we only get a healer and a dps or tank and a healer or 2 dps. You get the picture.

I really wish people would stop repeating this fallacy again and again. That's not what Yoshida said at the time at all. And people repeating themselves on it won't suddenly make it the truth.
What Yoshida said is that they wouldn't develop a new job for a patch (aka Ninja) at the same time as developing multiple new jobs for the following expansion. And guess what? We didn't have any jobs in major updates since Ninja.

It's popularity would not only bring in people to the TANK role due to it'd thematic appearance

The same thing was said to justify DRK as a tank and it doesn't seem like it had any lasting impact. So, why would SAM be any different?