Why do people want Blue Mage in this game?

[Yasuhiro]

It just wouldn't work not in this type of game.
I mean sure we could have it but with how you earn abilities in this game the blue mage job would be butchered and be a very heavy downgrade

How about we go over what the Blue Mage is all about.
The Blue Mage gets all of his/her magic spells from enemies by being attacked when they cast a skill you can learn



And there's tons of spells you can learn.

How do you earn skills in XIV? you level up or get them from job quests
And should Blue Mage ever be in this game you'd just be learning skills from Job quests
>Defeat 5 Goblins in Dravania Hinterlands
>Well done adventurer! You've now earned the skill Goblin Punch
No actual chance of discovering skills yourself.

It honeslty sounds like the only people asking for it are Ex- WoW players just discovering that there's more games than just Final Fantasy XIV and they're echoing what they've seen on the Final Fantasy wiki or something. Please don't let this game butcher such an awesome job.