Why is it that stripping Aeris out of every White Mage spell in the game (except for Holy, I guess) makes it acceptable for you to call her a White Mage variation, but getting rid of Kick-based skills for Pugilist doesn't make it okay for them to be a Monk variation?

Why are we sticking to FFVII? There's also FFII, FFVI, FFVIII, FFX, FFXII and FFXIII.

Again, I fully understand it's considered a FF staple, but it doesn't change the fact that what FFXIV did (adding FF skills to a lot of non-FF containers) has been done a lot of times in the series. I'm only arguing against the way you're trying to make us see things, rather than against how you think they should be in FFXIV (which I agree with).