What I get from this post is that the WoW implementation of Hunter is a better Beastmaster than FFXI's BST.

Well.. I have to agree. After all, this is FFXIV, not FFXI v2.

For XIV, I would rather see a Beastmaster follow along the lines of WoW's hunter where once you tame a pet, you keep it and it levels with you.

I also wouldn't mind having the ability to tame multiple pets and switch between them. After all, the class is Beastmaster, not Beastamateur.