Quote Originally Posted by Arkevorkhat View Post
That sounds significantly too reasonable and interesting for it to be the actual answer.
The devs rarely ever rework something and leave it at the same or higher complexity, every rework I've seen thus far has made the job being reworked simpler and easier to play.
MCH lost the whole loading system, and their procs got ripped out. AST lost the road, and all the cards got turned into the Balance. BRD lost cast times. MNK lost Greased Lightning. NIN lost a bunch of their kit, etc.
To be completely fair...cast times on BRD and MCH when they are suppose to be the physical range classes that basically got free range of an entire arena was pretty asinine to begin with