alright spoonfeeding time. I suggest guys who are actually interested in playing this game to download the vanilla and go blind and ignore the following because it's slightly spoilery.
every FF XII hater has been repeating for years, yes even before TZA, this talking point how all your roster of characters has the same license board and that roles are no more. that is intentionally misleading. while technically yes they have the same board, during the duration of the story, you are not able or supposed to fill it out. however you have the freedom to chose how you evolve its player. it's a big board, saying you have the same board means no roles is the same as a path of exile player saying the game has no classes because of the same passive tree. but of course that's a retarded take because it's all about the direction you take. this is exactly the point of the board in XII albeit in a more primitive and limited manner. obviously that board doesn't provide for the endless hours POE can, but it's mainly intended to work for the duration of the story. now, when you get to the post end content and obviously yiazmat, the meta is clearly dictated by end game weapons, end game items and the characters built in stats. so once again you have roles because you want the absolute best from every character.