I hate playing as other characters

[Shougun]

The G-Warrior mech fight is using the "play as NPC" programming, for a start.

That one was definitely the right idea! I didn't think of it when posting because I was largely thinking magical things I wanted to "role play", rather than mechanical, but that is definitely an example that fits what I was generally saying.

I was saying magitek operator would be potentially a nice limited job (given the logical potential of progressions, unrelated to pretty much anything anyone wants to 'main', and relatively self provides reasons why it has restrictions to content), but when G-Warrior came along I was like "wow, this could be a really fun limited job...".