Absolutely love the OP. It brings up issues that i've had with the game for a long time. The Final Fantasy (online) games are mainly more for a niche audience. I absolutely hate being able to spam classes to 50 in such a short amount of time. So much that I don't even want to level more classes outside of crafting/gathering. However I don't see this being changed because Yoshi-P has come off on this subject with a "It's my way, and that's final" attitude.

As for gathering. In the future I believe that all materials gathered will be dropped to one. I would also like to see materials such as Cobal/Electrum/Mythril/Gemstones become very rare in the gathering process. As it stands now there are just simply too many in the game. What's going to happen @ PS3 launch? 10,000 Cobalt on the AH for 25 Gil per?