I never played while HW was current, but I play with a few friends who did, and while they do miss the occasional job ability lost, sometimes it's funny to bring up things like Cleric Stance and TP just to make them shudder and laugh. They don't remember it that fondly. Two of them even dropped the game and came back a year or so later during SB because they weren't having much fun in HW patch content. But conversely, all of my friends who started playing in HW are now bored with the EW jobs and have dropped the game again or gone back to other MMOs like WoW.

I'd like to think there's a balance somewhere here, because I do feel like the jobs have become too homogenized in EW, but a lot of those old systems were dropped for a reason.