Do you think after Endwalker there will be time travel?

[Lanadra]

Again this could be taken as the lines between narrative and gameplay becoming skewed since they simply abandoned classes as an idea so they don’t update the base classes anymore. But it does make sense from a lore perspective since as lanadra says, it’s hard to imagine we mastered all these fighting styles, it makes more sense that we’re using the soul crystals to cheat.

My point was more that I treat 'the WoL is a star at literally all forms of combat and crafting/gathering' as gameplay while from a narrative point thinking that the WoL most likely mastered three, maybe four of those things in total. Like.. I dunno, Gladiator/Paladin, Machinist, Dragoon and Samurai. That is typically how I think when looking at my WoL from a narrative perspective, exceptional at a few things that share a general skill similarity (like melee) and machinist as an outlier while treating the rest as 'gameplay', making them exceedingly powerful especially with the workaholic attitude the WoL is often believed to have.. yet still within the realm of reason.

Hearkening back to your point about the Soul Crystals though, I don't believe it's as simple as 'we don't learn anything ourselves, we just cheat by using the knowledge of those who held it before us as a crutch'. It's worth remembering that with a lot of the jobs you only even get the Soul Crystal because it resonates with you, because you're 'special'. Perfect example is White Mage, the Padjali siblings make it exceedingly clear how unusual and actually forbidden it is for anyone not Padjali to wield the forbidden White Magics.. yet A-Towa-Cant himself chooses the WoL to inherit his crystal and become a White Mage.. presumably because the WoL has the affinity and drive to learn the arts and put them to good use. So quite clearly a certain skillset and ability to actually learn the arts is a requisite to being able to actually use a Soul Crystal.

It's often been described to us that yes, the knowledge recorded in the Soul Crystal helps us on our way and is likely why we are able to pick things up surprisingly quickly rather than go through the process most of the NPCs would have to.. namely, a long arduous learning path.. like Jannequinard learning Sharlayan Astrology.. but I don't think that we never learn anything ourselves and just 'cheat' as you put it. I won't deny that it does seem clear that any job does seem to always require the Soul Crystal be with you.. and this does not seem to go for just the WoL either. In the Astrologian quest.. the first one, Mace tosses his crystal towards you before he's taken, and his grand daughter despairs at how he now has literally no means with which to defend himself with.