I always loved the idea of skill trees or anything that gives the player some kind of agency with their character’s growth. Sadly I don’t imagine we’ll ever get anything even remotely close to that. SE literally doesn’t even trust us to meld our own materia - hence why every stat that’s not crit or direct hit is worthless. Because SE genuinely thinks we’re so stupid we wouldn’t be able to decide what to use if there were more than 2 options.

If we got a ‘skill tree’ it would just be a literal ladder upwards and not a tree, so it would be a complete waste of resources over just making us learn those skills normally through levelling.

Plus the community would ruin it anyway because it wouldn’t matter how perfectly they balanced the ‘tree’, people would parse the absolute fuck out of the skills to determine which is mathematically superior and you’d be forced to get them or get kicked which cannot happen in FFXIV (see: cross classing lol). This is why we can’t have nice things lol