Funny you should mention FF1 Alerith.

I was debating on whether I should bother making a thread to point out to SE that what they have made isn't a job system, it's the FF1 advanced class promotion system.

Seriously, WTH is going on at SE that people have to tell them this stuff?

This makes everything SO MUCH WORSE because you have to get the advanced job, and no other good job is coming for your basic job. Now every Archer has to be a Bard. Most archers aren't going to want to be bards. A lot of bards don't want to be archers either.

Most people wanted something more like FF Tactics. The appeal was obvious in that it should have been an awesome fit with the armory system's flexibility.

Weapons+Tools vs Jobs

Some would be simple in that say Lancer 30 opens up Dragoon. But others would be more complex...like say Alchemist 20 + Botanist 20 = Chemist.

That was the sort of job system that people wanted. That IS a job system. And the basic idea of it fits so well with the armory system in such an obvious way and was so much talked about.

And yet somehow the job system we're getting is frankly complete crap if it's only ever going to be 1 job per class because that just is not a job system. That is a promotion system being called a job system by incompetent people.

1.19 has made this game a complete mess. I'd say 1 step forward and 2 steps back but it's more like 1 step forward and a 10 step drunken jig of madness into crazy-WTF-town.