Why do Scholar's job quests still require a level 30 Arcanist to start?

[FoxCh40s]

(Nonsarcastic) What makes you think this would be difficult? It should be (still nonsarcastic) easy:

• Create new blank job.
• Copy current SCH attributes, actions, and traits to new job.
• Make SCH unlock quest set scholar exp and level to Lv30 values so that new scholars begin at Lv30.
• Grandfather all people who already have SCH unlocked:
• for each character
  • if character.scholar.unlocked
    • character.scholar.exp := character.arcanist.exp
    • character.scholar.level := character.arcanist.level
  • else
    • character.scholar.exp := 0
    • character.scholar.level := 0

Scholar has some thematic and lorey reasons for requiring ACN. They can be changed, of course, but that would be more work than just the easy fix outlined above. It should be quite easy to make SCH its own job with its own experience and level without having to change any of the ACN and SCH lore at all. But if you want to go farther and disentwine them to the point that SCH doesn't require ACN at all, that's going to require bringing in the writing team and taking some dev hours from them.

But in terms of "more work", I think ultimately what they should do, besides the simple decoupling of SCH from ACN, is make the AST DRK MCH jobs unlockable at Lv30 outside of Ishgard because some people rush through the story to get to Ishgard just so they can unlock one of those jobs, only to be sent back down to Lv30 and unable to continue the story until they catch back up. Even if there are no additional quests between the Lv30 unlock quest and the Lv50/Lv52 quests, just being able to unlock them at Lv30 and continue the story uninterupted would be phenomenal. I think spending dev time on a single quest for each job to unlock at their starting level would be well spent and a much larger QoL change for healers than reloring SCH, and would give tank and healer players each three options from Lv30.

I don't understand why people think Arcanist flows into Summoner, because it absolutely does not. Arcanist is a tactician, who uses summons and slow damage to exert control over the battlefield. Scholar is an upgrade of this mentality, where they would balance and unbalance humors to relieve tactical effect.

Summoner is non of these things. It is channeling personal Aether from being in the presence of a Primal to gain power of those forces of elements and bind them to your will to create devastating effects.

Summoner has absolutely nothing to do with Arcanist, even remotely, and never has. If anyone needs to be detached from Arcanist, it's Summoner.