Lynxara
Nice post!!
Hmm, this is absolutely not true of the original for SNES. There was a particular combination of Jobs you had to have, or the final boss would have so much HP that you basically couldn't DPS it to death before it killed you.
I don't know if the Anthology version of V was dumbed-down or made easier. This is almost always the case with FFI remakes, though, so it seems possible.