I feel there should be more uses for the temporal gears and if the classes were just a bit more specialized and limiting I feel like it could be worth looking into, I am a new player and know nothing about the current story so I didn't know it was class dependent. Just a though I wanted to share with the community but now I understand it was just generally a bad idea.
Edit: I though it would be cool if you needed to start with early game specialized characters and later after you find and connect a translocator or 2 you need to connect them to some synchronization device allowing you to unlock and pick new endgame specialized classes.
Like make the hunter incapable of using a pickaxe but can pan at twice the speed with a higher chances of find ore, no farming skill so any crops planted take 3x time to grow and is more skilled with a hunting knife and can get more meat off any kill.
Or blackguard that can mine faster but the pickaxe breaks faster by 1.5 per block and has a chance of finding 2 ore when breaking an ore block, is incapable of aiming any ranged weapons, due to heavy hands gathers half meat from kills and works the fields harder giving any crops planted a slight growth speed boost.
I just wanted to put this idea out so I can stop thinking about it.