the only thing that makes sense in this, is that nin will be dex, only so that there won't be any competition between 3 jobs. so since BRD doesn't have any competition, they give nin, dex stuff.
otherwise, everyone that argues that NIN should have dex, because other games/they are dextrous...well so is MNK, and they are str...IN THIS GAME, because MELEE use str...and NIN is melee (BRD isn't, cause melee means close range)
ppl argue that it was simpler to add dex to mnk gear...but it would be simpler to not change any gear, and just have nin/mnk share the existing gear, unchanged. and then nin get their own sets, from 2.4+
so if nin is dex, i think the only reason for it is to reduce competition, between melee classes. but then again, drg/mnk have seperate sets anyway, even if they both are str. and it's not like they haven't introduced new sets, that are just recolored versions of other armors; so they could just have recolored mnk stuff, and made it nin exclusive. but i guess they might want to minimize the nr of sets?
they also said that ppl that are mainly melee, will have an easy transition, because nin use pgl/lnc, but it will be rough transition, unless you have dex accessories also.
well we'll see...
dex for nin, is still stupid, aside from the gear-sharing aspect.