People love to talk about what Yoshi said in an off hand comment about Samurai and his personally seeing it as a DPS, they rarely finish the comment...

http://www.cgmagonline.com/2015/03/1...-with-yoshi-p/

"In terms of how fans reacted, it makes me think ‘so if we were to put in a Samurai, how is it going to play into the realm of Final Fantasy XIV? Would it be a tank? But that doesn’t seem to make sense because Samurai seems to be more of a DPS. Or if we were to go in the vein of a tank, wouldn’t it be a Shogun?’ those kind of thoughts start brewing in my head. Then we would look to the fan feedback again and see what the community is asking for; what they’re searching for. What their image of what a Samurai ought to be. And again, play catch a little bit and converse and see what the fan thinks and determine and discern what would work in the realm of XIV. So by having that communication and that thought process and being pretty transparent out there, then the player would understand when we say ‘ok so we’re taking this all into consideration. It does take a while to implement a new job so if you could please wait.’ And then fans will understand: ‘oh, ok. So they are giving it a lot of thought, so I am going to see what’s going to come out of it."


Here's the thing, in another interview he not only breaks down the Job selection process but also discusses role allotment, in addition he blatantly states He does not pick what is implemented.
(Job discussion begins at 24:27)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyqedOqkaHI&t=1553s

In hindsight this may very well be in response to the whining we got from Dark Knight being announced as a Tank rather than a DPS.