Quote Originally Posted by ZephyrMenodora View Post
My "weak and unreasonable argument" is what the Dev's implemented and stood by for a decade.

These armors are often homages to past Final Fantasy games and characters of those exact classes. Class unique gear is something many players enjoy. There isn't even that much of it in FFXIV, and it's not like the game lacks for other options to wear.
So why not free up all options all together. The entire moonward set is an homage to FFIV, offering equipment options for Cecil, Kain, Rydia, Edge, and Edward, but a DNC can wear Edward's armor, a WHM can wear Rydia's armor (in white), and a WAR can wear Cecil's armor. Cloud, Squall, Zidane, Firion, Tidus, Yuna, Lightning, Snow, Noctis, and even the FF1 Warrior of Light's armor is wearable by every job. Vaan, Balthier, Penelo, Basch, and Larsa's armor is wearable by multiple jobs as well. Fran's can be worn by any job as long as you're a female Viera.

There's no reason to continue holding old artifact gear hostage for shallow reasoning.