The Devs Listen to Us

[Absurdity]

Yes, they definitely said they heard the "3.0 job design" arguments but are happy with the 5.0 design and wanted to continue it in Endwalker.

Realistically, I don't think the design could ever be 3.0 again, because 4.0 is when we got job gauges and had some of the worst clunkyness removed. But they don't want to do 4.0 design either.

Nobody is telling them to go back to 3.0 job design, because that was in the other extreme end where integral job mechanics were designed in such a way that not playing the job correctly meant you basically didn't get to play at all.
But there has to be a middle ground between 3.0 punishing and 5.0/6.0 baby's first mmorpg.

[Supersnow845]

Nobody is telling them to go back to 3.0 job design, because that was in the other extreme end where integral job mechanics were designed in such a way that not playing the job correctly meant you basically didn't get to play at all.
But there has to be a middle ground between 3.0 punishing and 5.0/6.0 baby's first mmorpg.

Which is essentially 4.0

A lot of the Jank of 3.0 is gone but the jobs still had an identity