Gamespot interview with Mr. Ozma... Very disappointing

[Raikai]

The 2 minute meta likely exists because it makes for much easier job balancing as a whole, as you have a fixed scenario you can test jobs inside of.

That much is very clear, at least. I find hard to believe that they would think of the 2min meta as such a "good concept to have creative job design upon", and just go with it because it makes their job much easier.

I didn't do high end content in Stormblood (still lslowly getting into the game), but was the 'not-2min-meta' a jarring issue to the community or something that made many jobs not viable? If not, then we actually have a successful example of how it would be otherwise.