Quote Originally Posted by yoshinoharu View Post
one of the major selling points of FFXIV is the ability to play every job.
That was never really meant to be a major selling point. It was just how FF11 was designed so this design was extended to FF14 as well. In Heavensward, they always talked about the raid tiers in terms of people having a main job for a given raid tier. Recently, they acknowledged most people actually play multiple jobs, but raid tiers are still designed around the idea that you choose a main for it.

I think the marketing for this selling point has been done a lot more by players than by SE.

However letting people trade in gear for the same gear on another job would solve the problem of not being able to switch jobs for a static at least.