Why Make Jobs useless ?

[Alhanelem]

They don't "make jobs useless." The community decides that. Summoner isn't useless, it just overlaps with specialists, which makes them picked only when the specialist isn't avialable; it also doesn't have enough about it that is unique that can be put to good use on a consistent basis.

Also they err too heavily on the side of caution with pet jobs for fear of making them too powerful, as pets automatically have many inherent advantages. PUP eventually did become a pretty decent DD, BST has gotten better, as has DRG, SMN has only gotten sidegrades (e.g. new stuff that's cool but doesn't really increase its power much) and niche powers (e.g. 2hour summons). Splitting BP attacks and non-attacks to seperate timers was nice, but it wasn't enough- SMN is always playing catch up. As much as I disagree with some people about how inferior it is, it really does need some love.

[DebbieGibson]

They don't "make jobs useless."

How do they not? Smn can't do damage like the DDs, smn can't proc like blm and blu and nin, smn can't heal like whm, smn can't support like brd. How is that not useless?

If SE would make smn BP do 50k damage every 45 seconds then people would use them for DD.
If SE would make smn proc like blm then people would use them to proc.
If SE would give smn cure 5 then people would use them to heal.
if SE would give smn TA+30% BP people would use them for buffing.

Unfortunately they have none of that, so how is that the community deciding they're useless?