Grizzlebeard - NIN was never supposed to be a tank in FF11. It was created to be a versatile DD - debuffs, damage mitigation, ranged attacks. Many dd jobs have damage mitigation abilities, NIN's abilities were just exploited by players, mainly because in certain fights utsusemi was broken good but also because of the enmity in the game was nothing like FF14 - anyone could get hate on 11 were as 14 made tank skills come with large enmity boosts