Genuine Question about Job Homogeneity

[Moqi]

Most jobs are a variation of build gauge=> spend it on big attack and the way they increase the gauge isn't that different. You can map out similar abilities to the same buttons and you don't even need to know exactly what you're pressing as long as you learned how one job works.

You feel like they're different enough, lots of people don't. There's really not much else to get, it's not that complicated. There are many ways to deal damage and SE only uses one and a half.

If you were to remove the icons and animations from the jobs, and only were left with "attack 1, attack 2, attack 3" and so on, could you tell the difference between Scholar and Sage?, could you tell appart from Gunbreaker and Paladin?

This sums it up perfectly.