It's not really about what you can or can't do between ranks, but about the fulfillment of going as far as you can go on a job. The same situation exists from 48 to 50 on a DoW&M, but everyone still rushes to get to 50 to be able to say they did it. My point wasn't about making money, just that it would take much longer to complete the journey to max rank.

P.S. They should fix this for botanist and miner also!

I am really not too impressed with the "golden patch" of 1.18 in general aside from the nightmare of 40+ gathering, the SP nerf of melee jobs is even worse..... at 23 if I fight a level 35 mob I receive 186 SP..... wth at that rate sometime in 2020 I may get that job to 50. Behest every hour now... less SP, even the great idea of having imperials attack camps is weighed down by no SP gain.

So much could have been done from this update, so much was expected and aside from the raids (if you dont want to level another job and are lucky enough to have a level 50 already) and content adds this update rates about a 3 out of 10 in my books.

I am not sure this was the impression SE wanted to give to new players and people who used this update to come back to the game.