Could Merit Points/Job Points or another sort of character progression work for FF14?

[Musashidon]

There would still be room for level ups, if they went ahead and squished levels down in ARR... ARR doesn't really need 50 levels these days...

But I do kind of wonder what they have in mind for future character growth.

i have never liked the idea of squishing ARR into lower lvls cause what do you mean i will be fight bahamut prime at lvl 20?! for a lvl squish just putting everything post ARR into lvl 50 is the easier solution and the newest expansion goes from 51-60.