Please add more Water to WHM’s identity

[Shurrikhan]

FFXIV V1.0's classes tried to bend towards nature (thus more in common with druids, or "nature wizards") but was bent back towards the cleric in 1.21 by introducing the classic FF jobs, and with it, shoe-horning the lore back towards it's origins in D&D.

How did 1.0 bend White Mage towards nature when it neither had nor ever intended to have a White Mage? It had Conjurer, which... conjured from the elements, and the priest-like Thaumaturge which, per its namesake, worked miracles around light (astral) and dark (umbral), blood and magic.

There is virtually no similarity whatsoever in design philosophy or vision between 1.0 and 1.2. You merely have the world chunkiest retcon as Yoshida takes over. 1.0 intended to be different, and was until --to borrow your word-- those shoe-horn revisions. As such I don't think the 1.0 basis carries any of that legacy; it merely points out that not all design teams necessarily wanted to follow it verbatim.