Give me your most unhinged Job take that you still genuinely believe in.

[Turnintino]

My unhinged take is Square Enix made a serious mistake when they came up with the design of white mages. There is no reason we should have holy spells.

It's just because white magic is tantamount to holy magic in most FF titles, and Holy is one of the job's signature spells in that same context. So, historically speaking, the elementalist bent in FFXIV is the real outlier. They didn't want to completely do away with WHM's broader identity despite the reimagining, though, and what we got here consequently lacks coherence because of it. ┐(￣ヘ￣)┌

The addition of new jobs starting with ninja has been only a detriment to the game.

I don't think we can count NIN, since it was intended to be included from the start. Development just lagged.