So Why assume removal of Classes?

[Tupsi]

Yep we have to keep in mind that Lore wise the Jobs are special because only few people are able to actually learn and master the Jobs.

Dark Knight most likely will have a Lore reason why it is a Job without a class while keeping the concept that Jobs can only be learned by very few people worthy of the Soulstones.

Funny enough he said if you register a code you "might" be able to become a Dark Knight from the get go, wonder how they're gonna fit that into lore? As much as they claim "lore" on everything, it doesn't keep them from breaking it continually throughout 2.x - to the point they even said to ignore certain lore because it wouldn't make sense if you go: "but the lore stated..."

If we're to take lore into consideration: Conjurers are Black Mages that can also use healing magic. Thaumaturge are Black Mages that can reanimate and control the dead.

which is basically what we're doing already, so what would that change? except removing a large chunk of story/lore.

None of the story is dependent on classes, actually - nor even on the jobs. The story is focused around a set of NPCs and the adventurers.