Yeah, I did no that, but You've missed mentioning that if you didn't equip it, then you wouldn't have learned skills. Equip Fire, and then LEARN Fire2 or sumthing

My point is.....WHY DID SQUARE GO BACK TO THAT PERIOD OF EQUIPING AND LEARNING?

(FFVII was centered on the Materia system, and that's why you just equiped them with weapons. They wern't the centre focus)