I would like to see Classes treated as proper, separate "Jobs"

[Alahra]

Honestly speaking, "it's a lot of work" should never be an excuse to not implement something, espesically when we're looking at an expansion.

Sometimes, though, fundamental reworks don't provide a lot of actual benefit, as would largely be the case with any reworks of Extra Jobs to include base classes or for SCH to receive its own base class. They all function fine as is within the framework as provided, with SCH perhaps only needing the decoupling of its stat points from ACN now. That's ultimately why I don't see them doing anything in this regard: they would need to create new quest content for all of the jobs from 1-30, which includes a lot of content (cutscenes, dialogue, instanced battles, and so on)—again, all for very little benefit for the majority of players (and provides for logistical issues like whether or not existing level-capped characters need to do the new quests and the like, though there is some precedent for this with Legacy players I think).

If SCH or one of the other jobs had a bit of an identity crisis, something more drastic might have been appropriate. SMN/SCH did have some identity issues prior to HW, but instead of reworking one of them from the ground up, they elected to make the necessary changes post-50—which achieves the same end goal but without need for fundamental modifications.