What a waste of our time and developers time if they try to do more of these lame duck limited jobs. Full job or not at all. Nearly every MMO ever released has some sort of pet class. I don't see why FFXIV doesn't have the creativity to implement it as a full job. Even if it was a clone of Beastmaster in Everquest which was pretty similar to Puppet Master it would work as a full job or if they had charm beast like the Enchanter and Ranger. If it was like Hunter in WoW it would work as well very easily. You could travel around capturing monsters and it shrinks them down like WoW and each pet has a unique ability or skill tree. You fight alongside the pet with dual axes like EQ. Done.

Even Blue Mage showed a surprising lack of creativity. WoW has druid, a class that can handle 4 different roles. There is no reason why Blu cant be a full job either if they locked abilities behind stances.