Next Scouting Job?

[Garet]

Not necessarily. That just tells us that ninja is a melee job.

If they had hypothetically assigned dancer to Scouting but still kept it designated as a ranged DPS, it would be grouped with the ranged DPS quests while ninja would still be grouped with the melee.

And I do think that dancer should have been Scouting. Both dancer and ninja are nimble, fast-moving fighters who shift between close quarters and ranged fighting, and they fight using bladed weapons. In some other FFs, chakrams are even designated as thief/ninja weapons.

Meanwhile the two "definitely Aiming" jobs, bard and machinist, fight exclusively at range (at most approaching the edge of a pack of enemies to use their AOE skills) and use projectile weapons.

It seems far more logical to me to have grouped dancer with ninja, especially given the gear situation.

Agree with you here. The DNC here could be implied to be a job that uses dancing as a disguise to do espionage and spying. Hence scouting