I agree with the OP.
I havent logged on FFXI in a good while. There has been alot of problems with the game since the very start and it seems like SE just keep adding new problems and spend years of fixing old ones...
-The RDMs still cant DD with their swords. The DPS is still horrible and the WSes is laughable. It takes so much effort to even be half as good as a "proper" DD (MNK, WAR etc). And watever excuse SE use to "justify" this is always a bad excuse...
-SMNs still have their bloodpact problems. Only one DD-bloodpact every 45 seconds cant compare to the regulaire DDs and the lvl 1 - 65 bloodpacts is still as useless as ever (cept maybe a couple).
-PUPs have finally gotten the update they deserve, but it took them years to get them... (the same as pretty much everything in this game, hint WotG)
-Abyssea made everything else bad. You got gil, exp and armor from abyssea that was basicly better than anywere else in the game. The fact that SE didnt consider this WHEN they implemented abyssea is embarrassing. It has taken them too long to implement the trial of magians-system to "fix" old endgame items.
The list is soooooo long that I dont want to make another really long wall-of-text, but one would think that after so many phail-updates and complaining from the community, SE would maybe stop adding new problems before they fix the old ones...