Why did SE decide to make the three new classes not require base classes?

[Nephera]

for some insight on to how we got here:

1.0 was really bad and the armory system was one of the -very- few good things about the game. so we begged them to keep it for 2.0. we didn't really expect to end up in this scenario.


Oops.

edit: at least it does get people to try out classes they wouldn't normally try. it's how I ended up enjoying THM/Blm.