The skill progression is atrocious

[Jojoya]

Exactly, the game is such boring chore, it literally holds players back to not have fun till last levels

Not to mention most of the jobs do not functions properly without core skills

It's very archaic idea of progression with skills on levels up ( but what happens if you spreed the same amount of skills from first expansion till last one in upcoming years )

If it's a boring chore, why are you still playing several years later when nothing about the game's skill progression design has changed in that time.

It's not an archaic idea of progression. It's a different one that core to RPGs, which tend to emphasis character development over time. You start knowing nothing. You gradually get stronger. There are plenty of other game genres to choose to play if you want to be all powerful from the start.

Quite honestly, this game would get boring fast if you started off all powerful then had nothing to look forward to in the way of character development.