Inevitable Job Simplifications?

[tearagion]

As for the study classes - the problem is when Jobs are complex enough that everyone has to read The Balance to figure them out. Ideally, players should be able to just read their tooltips and basically figure out the optimal rotation. It might take a little thought, but the information should be there and the optimal rotation should be understandable by doing so. No Job in FFXIV really does this, but some come closer to others.

Every job is VERY easy to figure out an efficient rotation on, you don't need the balance to clear anything in this game. Even BLM you can get through pretty much every encounter in the game, with good contribution, just by playing standard and using triple/instants for movement. You say that you think a mix of simple and complex jobs would be ideal, but then the "ideal" scenario you actually describe is a mix of braindead and simple.