It is more that it can tank if you want to, and that SE acknowledged that people liked that way of playing and started adding armors with things like +enmity and -PDT. So it would be nice if SMN could be getting some more melee oriented armors as well, just like BST and PUP, since that is a very good type of armors that is just plain sad to not have access to.
Sometimes I think they do it just to be mean. Like the Dynamis drops that have "enhances pet: All jobs except SMN". It's like you wonder why a WAR would want enhanced pets, and why SMN isn't allowed to.
