Magic as a Main Theme in an Expansion?

[Len]

Sorry, but that's not true at all.

Y'shtola
Minfillia
Alphie
Papalymo
Urianger
Krile

There are a ridiculous number of highly visible magic-based characters in the story.

I should have been more specific; how many of those characters can you say fall into any of the magic jobs we have available to us? (Black Mage, White Mage, Summoner, Scholar, Astrologian)

None of them. It would benefit class identity if we had characters in the story that represented these jobs in the same vein as a Yugiri, Estinien, Thancred, and now the new characters being added in Stormblood.