To be fair, it's also ridiculously easy to hit level 30 in the Fallout games and incredibly tedious to reach the top level in most FF games!

I agree with Jinx above about maxing out. Fair play with abilities - they'll be useful (typically the longer to master ones - e.g. Auto-Life are), and the command abilities you might want to learn all of just so you can see them. There's some pretty nice skills there which aren't replicated in other FF games.