They can axe em easily - They reworked the storyline for ARR, they can easily have reworked it for HW, it doesn't take THAT much work, especially looking at the setup they actually use for quests and such. The only thing is, it'll be like 1.x > 2.0 transition, you'll have lots of stuff in limbo that'll never be completed. To be honest it feels like they wanted to get rid of classes but never had a proper reasoning to do so in 1.x era once he introduced the job system. I do much prefer the XI/Tactics setup of job system but classes really only served a storyline purpose at this point since there's no way they could have balanced content around the initial class system.
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