Oh get of your throne. You always gives these speeches about woe is me woe is the job. RDM melee is fine just how it is, outside of very minor adjustments it is pretty much in the same place as all other single handed jobs. It always has been. I could go through years of banter from alla where you and people like you (Hyrist for example) have done nothing but ask for handouts, when people like myself and (primarily) Starfox have provided parse data showing RDM competeing with NIN's and Ridill wars (all be it in EXP content but in terms of % decrease going to NM's we are more or less still in the same realm). Ive never seen you post a parse of RDM melee, ever, not once. You bitch and moan and bitch and moan, yet have never even shown that you even practice what you talk so much about.

You just need to grow a pair of balls and play how you want to play. RDM melee is fine, it can cap haste, it has 2 decent weapon options it has a few solid weaponskill options, it has some decent abilities that other melee DD have. The best part is that it isn't expected to perform well, which means you aren't tied to one specific subjob, and these sweet sambas that you want to provide can be done so /DNC. (if you are married to /NIN its because you want to show off your sweet RDM melee epeen, to the group of people who don't care)

I want everyone to play the way they want to when they want to in whatever activity they enter, but I can't, in good conscience, believe that is possible when strengths are lop-sided.
By lopsided strengths I assume you mean the greatness that is enfeebling? or enhancing? or healing?. At present 2 parts of RDM are good, nuking and melee, 1 is mediocre, healing, and 2 are completely ass fucked beyond reason, enhancing and enfeebling.

You talk about your wish for versatility, yet along with lolSaev talk nothing of what would be nice for melee. what would be great for melee is actually getting invited to a group in the first place, and I promise you that RDM will never be asked to come as a melee DD no matter how much SE buffs it, because there are 8 other jobs sitting in that same fucking line that will be at SE's throats if RDM was better then them by a clear margin.

You are out of touch with this job, and this game, and are a push over.

Ive been meleeing for 7 years on RDM, you have been crying about it for at least 4. in the infamous words of Woody Allen, its time to nut up or shut up.