XIV EW Job-Gameplay is Terrible... Why?

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But virtually all other MMO games also have your main character as the "hero", regardless of role. Yet, they still are able to keep the classic trinity design. The fact that a Warrior can heal at all (outside of potions) screams single-player.

I disagree on the healing thing, again XIV being the black sheep, all the jobs have self healing, and it's great in harder content, but it stems from when WoW was introducing it back in MoP as a mainstay for classes since open world content actually exists there and was needed for squishier classes to quest alone if friends weren't on or they were a solo'er.

A lot of features in XIV that feel single player stem from systems that were put in the game for the sake of open world content not being so overtly difficult in other MMO as a whole really.