My Tinfoil hat is saying that Square found Samurai's playrate numbers to be to high and needed that to be distributed amongst the other classes. Failing to make all Jobs universally more equally enjoyable or equally complex? they just made it all just simpler easier dumber and less complex. Bonus Points? makes game balancing probably easier ontop of it. This is my Tinfoil hat take, however... due to my attempt to cope with the situation... I don't even find it farfetched anymore, this was all an inside job. Then again I am coping here.