Why does everyone want Chemist as a new job?

[Mhaeric]

Yeah, that's my point. Arcanist was (planned to be) a mechanical mage in 1.0, but that was in no way GEO outside of some similarities to FFXI's GEO gameplay.

But people saying "Geomancer was datamined in 1.0" are completely incorrect, as nothing even closely resembling a Geomancer was intended for the game. Trying to use the intended 1.0's Arcanist gameplay loop as rationale that GEO will be added to the game is silly, as it'd be like saying we are going to get Puppeteer because mammets exist and look somewhat like FFXI automatons.

It's such a loose and silly connection.

You're forgetting that 1.0 didn't use traditional FF job names on purpose, even going so far as to blur traditional roles entirely in a lot of cases. Arcanist was effectively Geomancer as much as anything could be at the time. If it had actually been a released class in 1.0 with skills as described from the datamine then it very likely would have received a Geomancer job stone when they added jobs during the class system overhaul.