For the most part, people have either been posting the evidence in support of Scholar (eyes see Scholar AF), or posting reasoning from what we know about the v1 job system why it cannot be Scholar (brain says Book = Arcanist/Summoner). Regardless of what job/class SE says it is, the evidence won't have changed.

To me, overall, it seems more likely that SE would add and change stuff from v1 to make Scholar a possibility, rather than throwing the Scholar job under a bus and stripping it of its iconic AF, all but locking it out of FF14, and putting the Arcanist class in a circle of FFXIV jobs wearing iconic AF of a job not even in the game.

This isn't just some random concept art, either. It's the Japanese SE's cover art. It's also the back cover of the CE box, and on the cover of the JP version's art book. And of course on those marketing banners and posters seen in Fernehalwes's blog post.

P.S. LOL Anonymoose. I saw at least 2 versions of that deleted post. Been there. /comfort