Why no speculation on Jobs for crafting classes?

[Mack]

Cause nobody cares about crafting and as each month goes by it becomes more and more meaningless.

How do crafters expect to compete with untradeable gear anyway ?

Same way they did in FFXI? dumb response is dumb. Crafters in FFXI were the richest of players, that's because people still bought their stuff. FFXIV has a few untradeable items and crafters are useless now?

We technically don't "need" Jobs on top of the Armory Classes. Many players have already demonstrated that they can defeat the toughest challenges in the game without them. But we would still like to have them.

Jobs aren't meant "to defeat the toughest challenges in the game", jobs are meant to defeat much tougher challenges because the toughest challenges in the game just don't cut it. Crafting wont have jobs, that's just silly, they are already specialized classes and have hardly any leeway in customization, there is nothing they would benefit from "specialization" that can't be done through gear anyway.