What classes could share gear with ninja?

[Hasrat]

I don't see any reason why dancer couldn't have been exactly as it is now and still be given scouting gear. Throwing chakrams is a totally different kind of "aiming" to shooting projectiles, and ninja throws bladed weapons too - not as the core of their skillset but part of it nevertheless.

Eh, just the point that it's not just simply DPS, it's physical ranged DPS. As such, it was only natural to dump it in with the other physical ranged jobs. In order to fit in with Ninja, I'd expect any job will have to fit the niche of "physical melee DPS."

You're not wrong from an aesthetic standpoint. But from a game code view, I'd expect it has to be this way. They designed Dancer as ranged, so it has to share ranged gear.