Your right, the reason we love Final Fantasy is because each and every game is different and special in its own way.

The problem with XIV however, is it strayed to far from its FF roots. The Current Class/Job names are fine, but they don't sound or feel like a FF class.

I think that Yoshi-P has made many references to the roots of FF because that's what we love, the roots. I don't think he meant he wants to copy the other games, but he wants to rebuild the foundation with what made these FF games.

Basically it's about rebuilding with the FF foundation and then branching out to make XIV its own unique game.