Anyone else miss the game before jobs?

[Cabalabob]

I kind of hoped that with 3.0 they would have made more radical changes to the class system.

My idea was to remove all classes and just have 1 class known as freelancer, it would have no DF role, or rather, it's DF role would be dynamic based on the skills you set. It could use all armour and weapons and would learn abilities, skills and magic based on the weapon equipped, but could use any skills it had learned (after setting them, similar to 1.0 or the cross class system) this would be exactly as you describe OP, you would be a "makeshift" job based on the skills you set.

Then keep the job system as is. You equip your job stone which you can only equip while using an appropriate weapon, you lose access to skills except the ones learned from your weapon and some supporting skills, instead gaining job skills learned from the job quests.

This change wouldn't actually change much about the game as it is today, and yet this minor change in design would open up a world of possibilities and would have avoided the redundancy of the class system. And have kept that option open for people like the OP who want to build their own job.