No auto-attacks was apparently a big issue in 1.0.

But we have an example of jobs that don't do them - casters, because they are, well, casting. SMN, not so much casting but still technically a caster so the autos don't happen.

Now sure, some people will argue they walk up to an enemy on casters/healers and manually turn on auto-attacks and slap them with their book/staff with their 353 Strength stat and the hidden physical damage stat on their weapon to get in a little damage between casts, especially now that many casts are instant or 1.5 seconds. But most players are not bothering with that.

I think the amount of OGCDs we have now on many classes changes things compared to 1.0, but we do have some jobs with a lot less OGCDs like PLD, WAR, MNK.