Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[SieyaM]

There are a lot of jobs I don't play since I also don't have any interest, but that does not change the fact that I was a WHM for ARR, AST for HW, and then RDM for StB and ShB and now Summoner. There is just no consistent identity for your character since in RPGs and MMOs so much of it is tied to character class or job and for us that is constantly changing.

[SeverianLyonesse]

There are a lot of jobs I don't play since I also don't have any interest, but that does not change the fact that I was a WHM for ARR, AST for HW, and then RDM for StB and ShB and now Summoner. There is just no consistent identity for your character since in RPGs and MMOs so much of it is tied to character class or job and for us that is constantly changing.

The identity is only as consistent as you make it. My character went PLD -> DRK -> GNB, then picked up RDM and SAM to become a sword generalist. And even now, after I dropped a couple of those and picked up a few, I still am playing jobs that I feel all work within a kind of theme I set for my character.

At any rate, I don't think it's the game's fault for following a job system that has been around since 1994. If you don't like that your character doesn't feel consistent, be choosier about which new jobs you pick up--which you are clearly capable of doing if you skipped the ShB jobs. I would further argue that your character does have at least some higher degree of internal consistency than a lot of other players' characters, since you seem to be sticking primarily to mage archetypes--add a BLM and maybe a SGE and your character could just identify as a master of magic.