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

[Proxanna]

I think 5% is an extremely low estimate. That said, according to a recent poll (https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._according_to/), most jobs only have 5% of the player base maining them. So by your estimate not having talents is the equivalent of deleting an entire job.

I also think you would use different abilities for different situations, so I believe the vast majority of players would use the system because it actually would be "optimal" to switch abilities around for different bosses. That would give some variety in gameplay within a job even while you're doing your Savage runs over and over again.

I don't see what that poll has to do with anything? That's not really a proper comparison since there's 17 jobs total, so of course the percentage per job is going to be lower. I also don't see how adding a completely new system with spanning talent trees for 17 different jobs is the equivalent of deleting one of the already existing jobs in the game. Can you elaborate on that?