Quote Originally Posted by Ayer2015 View Post
hopefully classes are gone in 5.0.
For all intents and purposes they have been removed - you no longer need more than one class to unlock a job, and you don't need to level a difference class to gain access to important/helpful/needed skills. They exist as lore and flavor now.

Removing them any further would require a fairly involved process of rewriting the lore and story and changing the quests around...to have it function pretty much the way it will in SB, with the incredibly minor difference of not having to equip a job crystal. There's very, very, very little to gain by removing them now that their biggest hindrances to gameplay have been resolved.