Just feels like bad design

[AdamFyi]

But they flat out still haven't because they don't want to, else they would've done it with Shadowbringers, they have the capacity to change job unlock quests requirements, since you used to have to level Cnj to 15 for sch now just Arcanist to lv30 and finish questline, so would have no issues changing sch job unlock quest to just require any lv30 class to unlock and make said quest give a sch book as a reward on top.

They have the capability to split them completely, but probably won’t because it usually comes down to spaghetti code that they’re forced to work with that causes all these weird decisions. Just as a hypothetical, possibly making Scholar its own job akin to every new recent job would mess something up with how Sch’s level is currently tied to Arcanist. Stuff like unlocked abilities and quest progress can impact that too. They probably couldn’t find a feasible way to let players keep their current Scholar levels while splitting the two up.

There’s a lot of variables with why they made these weird decisions, but honestly, what splitting the two up really boils down to is the possibility that you’ll have to level Sch up back from scratch just to play it again. Sure, I have other jobs levelled, but what of players who only have Scholar unlocked? I know I’d hate to suddenly log in one day and be unable to actually do current content on the job I play because it’s basically reset to level 30.