I thought of an analogy. Imagine that you that you are among a group of vanilla ice cream fans who are complaining:

"We have been asking for chocolate for years and instead of giving it to us they've made chocolate ice cream. Now we'll never have any chocolate."

Vanilla is not the only flavor that you can experience ice cream through. It's a peculiar reaction that nearly all the comments are from the point of view that RDM is your identity and you are being denied something. I understand it but it's not the only type of reaction that could be had. I think I would be somewhat suprised if I were one of the squeenixes. We can view our place in the entire game as our identity, instead of seeing RDM as our identity. We could think that we like the way that enfeebling magic fits into a battle, and oh look these types of characters use it, I will explore enfeebling magic via these types of characters.

It sounds like I would have a hard time finding people to play with for end game stuff at lvl99 as a RDM. Luckily I don't have to be a RDM for all the roles that I might want to explore. If it is not RDM I'm on for those roles, I don't think it would make me any less fond of the RDM job. RDM is not dead, it's still RDM. Other roles are on the horizon.