Why are Warrior Axes so tiny?

[Felis]

P.s. There is nothing realistic about the game to begin with. Warriors swinging huge axes around isn't 'normal' by your standards? Then what is, in this game? Dragoons jumping a trillion feet into the air and then landing without any type of damage to themselves? Come on now.

Dragoon was created long long after the lv 1-49 axes, while Tanaka was already history. Or show me a jumping Lancer before the job system came ingame. The only "jump" skill the Lancer had was 1/2 meter high.
And because the animation lock of the skills the axes also feeled heavy, because the next skill can only start after the movement of the last skill stopped (inclusive the character finding his balanced stand again).