As long as this jazzed up idea of "Support Mage" involves no concept of melee integration, I will not be for it. Cry about derails, epeens, or how it always inevitably comes up, but when there is no incentive to be swinging with a party, the job is not matching its concept and can more easily be replaced by another job with their higher tiers on spells, AoEs, or spells/abilities RDM doesn't even get at all. Meanwhile, one should not be looking to BLUs as a sudden brick wall for RDM progression or even a RDM substitute. They're just different paths to the same goal in a combat caster like MNK and WAR are DDs of their own flavor.