So I owe a formal apology to the Blue Salt that has been around since November FanFest.

Now I'm level 50, I did a good bunch of the Masked Carnival and only have a few skills to get on primals.

For me:
It's not fun to level up from 1 to 50 through mob grinding, even with the exploit.
It's not fun to form parties for a dungeon otherwise closed to BLU to get a skill (for solo content)
It's not fun to have 49 skills when almost 50% of them are either useless, one time use or a copy of another skill.
It's not fun to go through stages of the solo instance when it all comes down to roughly the same content : figuring which spell is mandatory to get through.
It's not fun to lock skills behind absurd RNG (100 Ramuh runs made it clear for me)

I think I'd rather have had a watered down blue mage to fit the FFXIV system, or no blue mage at all.

And a practical question:
Why can BLU job quests be locked behind the obtention of a skill, but DF can't be locked in the same way to prevent BLU to queue there, as it was Yoshi P's concern?