Seems like a contradiction to me when I currently hate what's available, don't want extra skills to be tact on when the core issues of the job needs to be fix.

Take for example my previous main of AST. Underneath your idea of either P.Job skills or a skill tree: the RNG of the cards is still gone. The cards themselves are still horrible because they're repeats of what's in my kit on a 55second cooldown (when half of them come up every 30s by contrast and one has 2 charges).

None of that is fixed by talent trees or extra abilities. That requires a class rework.

Granted, AST has gotten one every expac since Shb, but considering they want to "keep things the same" I have 0 hope any changes I want to see are coming. Its better to cut my losses.