Two healer starting classes

[Taika]

because removing them takes a lot of work with little to no benefit for most of the current playerbase. if the existence of classes somehow affect your play on a day to day basis you really are playing the game wrong and that's hard to do.

Well not anymore, but in HW it affected me on daily basis when I had to keep swapping my stats for SMN and SCH. :P Now it only affects me when I stumble upon people who for some reason haven't unlocked their jobs (= done any of their quests) after level 30, but that's really rare now too. Now it's just a weird remnant that has no benefit to anyone in any way. I don't understand how removing them would affect players in any way though.

[Squintina]

I don't understand how removing them would affect players in any way though.

That's kind of the point. Removing them isn't as simple as just hitting a delete button, there's a lot of code and testing involved. To spend developer time removing something that doesn't really hurt anyone, and is just a starter version of a job, would be a waste when that time could be spent on other things that players actually would see a benefit from. It's not like it's such a hassle to go from a class questline to a job questline. Replacing that with one big quest line would not make it that much of a different experience.