Almost every complaint about the ShB job changes could be solved with talents

[reyre]

I agree that the cross-class skills was a bad system, but it was a system. We don't have a customization system at present. It makes the jobs feel extremely rigid. So far no one has countered my main point that offering choice would solve most of the problems people are posting about on this forum.

I'm willing to listen to any reasoned argument. So far most of what I see is naysaying without any substance to it.

See? i gave a reason, its pointless to have this system in this game since it will make some skills almost mandatory even in casual content, cool how you decide to ignore that.

Ofcourse you would say things like "but you dont need perfect uptime or the biggest dmg to clear causal content, this system could allow players to play in the manner they see fit" etc, etc. Ignoring the fact that customization wont work for every class, since some jobs will benefit more than others from it, i.e SMN, wheras MNK simply has to remove TK, SSS from the hot bar and it will virtually be the same (using your example of course), so there you have customization for MNK remove your skill from your crossbar. Yes i know that those were some ideas, but the point remains all things being equal customization will make either A) a class basically become OP and another useless, B) be so irrelevant and pointless that what for or Z) It will make no difference because customization doesnt fix a problem that has to do withe core mechanics of a class making it a waste of resources and time, instead more viable simple fixes are preferable than some deluded notion that the implementation of a "brand new" system will "fix" a problem by adding things to it.

This game issues wont go away if you add more player choice, this game is in itself too rigid (again for better or worse) to mesh well with that.