My goodness gracious. I'm not even a NIN and I had to respond to this.

You compared your want of NIN's using shuriken VS using their melee potential to "playing chess like a smart person cuz it requires strategy" and "Being a fencerider and doing what everybody does because you can't think for yourself."

So lets continue with the chess motif shall we? What you are suggesting is like refusing to make use of your queen because "The queen is OP and everybody uses the queen! I'm just gunna use my pawns because in Through the Looking glass Alice was a pawn and she managed to win the chess game!!" Choosing to make use of your strongest assest is what makes a cunning player. This isn't yugioh - you can't pull a win with your kuriboh card if you believe in it hard enough and people aren't dumb or uninspired for wanting to use something strong and reliable.

That being said: Perhaps if there were a new, easier to afford shuriken that was used at the start of fights to work as a debuff of some sort that compliments the NIN's natural DPS I think that would be fine. But I think at this point yearning for this to be like final fantasy III where Throw was the nin's big damage is beyond wishful thinking. You're just going to have to come to terms with the fact that in final fantasy 11 NIN's didnt get throw.

They got gil toss.