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

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As much as I want to defend my stance that both games have similar amounts of complexity, it's not worth it. Gonna try to keep this short, I shouldn't have even written an essay length response in the first place. Nobody wants to read blocks of text on a forum. It was probably all ignored until the part where I essentially had a bullet list.

Considering how many people were complaining about 2.0's battle system being a downgrade from 1.21's, I'd say that the battle system is a lot different...

I believe you took what I said out of context. I was responding to a claim that XI had no complexity and was pointing out a few that the game has. You may not have read the first part of the post where I said the games have similar complexities (i.e. I said are relatively simple) and have very different pace of battle mechanics. But I suppose that's my fault for making blocks of text. I didn't expect response to the latter portion without reference to the former portion of what was written for some reason.

And just because this irked me: Yes, I could have pointed out that WHM (my main XIV job) and SCH use of cleric stance to compare it with how Scholar works in XI, but I chose not to thinking it wouldn't need to be said because I thought it was an obvious parallel. It's why I used it as an example.

Now that that's out of the way, I think I'm done with this thread lol. Arguing topics like this is very subjective and this is the internet.