Imagine for a moment if you will

[SinSilverwing]

I mean the lvl cap in FFXI was 75 for years yet they still introduced new skills at various points for different jobs, they don't have to raise the lvl cap to add more skills.

True, my reasoning is they take away skills with each level cap raise to add new ones because they don't want jobs to go beyond a certain number of skills. So mayhap with expansions they add traits that could upgrade skills to new ones this brings about new skills and abilities without the worry of button bloat.

[Bacent]

So mayhap with expansions they add traits that could upgrade skills to new ones this brings about new skills and abilities without the worry of button bloat.

They already do that now.

Example: Stone -> Stone II -> Stone III -> Stone IV -> Glare

[SinSilverwing]

They already do that now.

Example: Stone -> Stone II -> Stone III -> Stone IV -> Glare

Like you have pointed out, i would rather see that over them take out skills, like they have done each expansion to make room for new ones with only upgrading a few.