It seems that the widely detested "Specialist" restrictions are not going away soon. SE wants to limit access to crafting jobs (unlike battle jobs).

If SE are too arrogant to admit they made a mistake, perhaps they can at least reduce the cost to change specialist jobs. Right now it takes 480 red crafter's scrips to purchase a Soul of the Crafter. That should be reduced to 100.

Actually, make that 90. That would allow purchase of 5 souls, plus the three you have equipped at the start of the week, to be able to access all 8 "Specialist" jobs each week. You would need to plan your crafting appropriately but I suspect most crafters plan their important crafting sessions anyway.