I find it hilarious. The same people who denounced jumping as an immersion breaker praise Gearswap, though that makes even less sense than jumping.

Anyways, Gearswapping is a pile of shit and I'm glad the devs discourage it. It didn't allow people to make choices (As a BRD do I want my buffs/enfeebs to stick? Or do I want my songs to be enhanced? Or do I want to be a subpar DD?), because you could just switch to whatever piece of gear was best to min/max the fuck out of everything. They should make it so that when you are engaged in battle, you cannot swap gear at all. The exception only being arrows/throwing projectiles.