nobody is concerned mages are losing half their spells?

[Viridiana]

No cross class skills on jobs, thus you then have up to 10 slots prepared for job specific skills.

It fits rather well if they go with the route of not including DoTs this way. Though it is just as likely that players are allowed limited choices in elements - such as they gain all 6 for a set of spells, be it nukes or DoTs or even AM, but they are maybe allowed 2 of each on their bars at any given time and chose 2/6. This would mean the bar is still restricted in the sense that you can't exactly remove nukes, DoTs and AM from your bar, yet you have some form of choice in their elements.

Regardless, it is quite an obvious catch and I'm sure they have something in mind. We do know for a fact that elemental spells are still in, and it makes VERY little sense for CNJ to learn 6 different elements of the same spell over a span of 24 levels.

I don't recall their ever saying "no cross class skills on jobs." I do recall them saying "limited cross class skills on jobs," but it remains to be seen how exactly that'll play out, I guess. . .