Thoughts on the FFXI Job Adjustment Manifesto

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Alternatively, SE could just say that Scholar is supposed to be a better nuker and other jobs are supposed to be better healers.

They could, but that idea cuts both ways. They could just as easily redefine whm and say that whm was never meant to be the only main healer. I'm not saying they will, but if they did - would you expect whms to just accept that without complaining?
But anyway, one thing to point out is the progression that they had sch at earlier levels. It's pretty obvious that there's been a substantial change in later levels in light arts spells from the previous trend. It's not that people here are arguing to change sch to something completely new, it's that people want the trend changed BACK to what it was, with respect to other classes. Hence the the charge of the class being "broken" has evidence to back it up - it's not just people whining.

The biggest issue at this point is the gap between perception and what each job is getting.

This is an is/ought fallacy. What "is" (or rather what "will") doesn't justify what "ought to be". What each job is getting doesn't settle anything concerning this debate. It's what this job should be getting.

SE will eventually sort things out, considering that they are unquestionably listening. I predict there will be complaints no matter what SE does though.

That's probably true, but making pejorative statements against complaining doesn't say anything meaningful. The whole point of this discussion is not whether there's complaining, it's if the complaints have merit. You side-step the whole debate entirely.