Why can't we have jobs with this level of depth and customization in FFXIV?

[Codek]

See, the problem with this and other comments like it is that the developers can't say "Well we didn't add this until 5ish years or whatever into our other mmo, so we can skate by with not improving upon that process because hey, it's only a year old!" And it's NOT only a year old. YoshiP has been on the project for a short time, but the game has been in development\reconstruction\planning\etc for over half a decade now. They really can't use the "it's brand, spanking new" excuse when they have almost 15 years experience in building mmos. The complexity should have been there from the start because you always want to improve upon your last project, and if nothing else, should certainly be working its way in there now, 5 years into the endeavor.

This game mostly opted out of having a complex battle system while in development mostly because the concept is a false prophet that taunts you with ideas of "Options" and "Variety" when in the end it all just becomes stale rehashed designs with a new name.

They built a simple combat model to save time and allow them to make interesting content more quickly rather then trying to make content fit into a bloated system.

By default, the system will still grow as the game continues in development. Having it start off with an elaborate system would just be insane.