More like being forced to jump to other classes that you may not have used cause it will be hours before the items needed to get the next set of skills become available or the creature with the loot needed for the bazaar becomes available cause its not the proper season. It doesn't help that a good chunk of the starting abilities are pretty damn crappy so you have to keep waiting around to acquire the items that actually have the relevant skills becomes available. I spent more time with a guide trying to obtain everything in TA2 so I can finally build the party I wanted, than I ever did in Tactics.

Yeah, it's just so much better than actual having free reign to choose what abilities you needed and being able to skip over the riff raff and just level the jobs to the point you need. Tactics' system is far more flexible and more user friendly than TA's ever was cause you're constantly at the mercy of when the game decides to let items and materials become available.

I heavily dislike TA's lack of control and I genuinely never found the classes to be as balance or as good as FFT's. I hate finally unlocking a great class like Paladin and only having access to cheap ass skills I wouldn't use even if I was just feeling jolly that day, and I especially hated farming materials for the weapons in the bazaar, cause it required me to constantly be referencing a guide. I have yet to play a TA title and actually master a job cause a third of the equipment is a pain in the ass to acquire. I've clocked more time into both TA titles than I did in FFT and I was still able to actually get Ramza and a few others to master the classes in half the time I've spent in TA series to get 2/3rds of the way there. So this whole "its faster and more balanced and progresses better" is bull if you ask me. I've yet to play a TA game and fully build the party I wanted when I wanted cause I'm constantly waiting for the game to throw me a freaking bone.

While the bazaar system fixes the randomness of the first game, it trades it with a huge task of farming materials and missions which can sometimes take awhile when seasons get in the way or you're waiting for a mission to become available again. So in essence you're back to FFT where you're farming for JP except at least you get results faster and more consistent.