BST is still quite capable of beating the heck out things with jug pets. Our damage potential has not been touched at all, even when the poorly thought out distance nerf was implemented. Yes, I'd like new jugs. No, I don't think that's at all urgent, and that some other actions should definitely be worked on first. Even just the simple change I suggested to reset CB/BL when pets are dismissed at 100% HP would go a long way towards opening doors back up for us in group content, and while it would benefit our groups as a whole, it wouldn't break the game or trivialize content in any way.
As far as unnerfing goes.. If the devs are still too scared of butthurt backlash to fully restore our JA range, then at least everything that's not Ready should be at least the same range as Fight. They'd need to swap our Fencer out for Dual Wield, and give us some sort of job trait to prevent our pets turning to trash if we gear for master stats, if they have any intention or expectation at all of backing up their reasoning for why we were nerfed in the first place.