I think I want subjobs more than I want job balance.

[Jojoya]

The very short sighted and ignorant demands for customization while we are surrounded by proof of what happens when you give customization to Gamers Tm and how it always results in metaslaves ruining the fun of everyone who doesn’t worship the meta and thus creates a ton more problems and solves nothing because people play the same build anyway.

It's not customization that creates metaslaves. It's incompetence. You don't need to be meta to clear content. All the meta does is offer a slight advantage when you and/or others in your party not competent at performing your jobs.

Save yourself hassle. Make some like minded friends and form a static instead of relying on PF, which is filled with incompetent players who need to lean on meta.

[Rufalus]

Damn shame that the FF XI remake got cancelled. Could have been an opportunity to bring a different kind of FF up to modern UI and graphics standard.

A xiv sub job system could work in theory but they would say it's unfeasible due to the gargantuan resource drain to implement and balance all permutations. Or if they left it wildly unbalanced they would want to restrict its usage down like limited jobs.

Dragoon + Paladin = Holy Dragoon tanking with spear and spells.
Blm + Whm = Sorcerer like ShB Y'stola.
Monk + Ninja = Black Belt greased huton.

[Ralph2449]

You don't need to be meta to clear content. All the meta does is offer a slight advantage when you and/or others in your party not competent at performing your jobs

You are absolutely correct, video game content is never tuned to require meta to be beaten, if you got a team of decent people and arent metaslaves you will progress fine, if anything you ll progress faster than the average metaslaving group since you can think for yourself.

It's not customization that creates metaslaves. It's incompetence.

I wouldnt blame the devs for its mere existence, dev incompetence can make things worse if they refuse to make frequent adjustments and let things be so they are not "disruptive" to FotM metaslaves. And since the only way to hurt the meta is to make frequent changes, things only become worse in those cases.
If you are talking about players then it would be on a really subconscious level cuz I ve seen a few people who unironically think and act like they are the gods gift to humanity while all they do is simply play the most busted spec/builds at that moment, it is scary that a person can become this delusional FROM A VIDEO GAME!

Save yourself hassle. Make some like minded friends and form a static instead of relying on PF, which is filled with incompetent players who need to lean on meta

I wish that was an easy thing to achieve, easily the fastest and most fun way of getting through content, arguably one of the harder things to find though, I came from WoW where i already had to jump around 3-4 guilds trying to find that "like minded" group and when things started looking like they were working, guild died for unrelated reasons and it can be pretty mentally tiring having to start all over again trying to find yet another guild with the hopes that people there will be good and also hope it isnt gonna die for whatever reason.

[ItMe]

It's not customization that creates metaslaves. It's incompetence. You don't need to be meta to clear content. All the meta does is offer a slight advantage when you and/or others in your party not competent at performing your jobs.

Do you mean incompetence on the part of the players or the devs?
(realistically it would probably be a little of both, but which were you trying to get at when you wrote this?)