I've been playing since 2004, and DRG was the first unlockable job that I unlocked... though I only took it to ~25 initially then stopped playing it for about 6 years.

I'm aware of most of what you've listed, though some of the higher level stuff is new to me (wheeling Thrust and Penta Thrust were as they are now when I finally got there), however, it doesn't prove your point entirely.

Yes, while DRG has had some updates, it's still not on par with most of it's rivals, unless you own Ryunohige, and that's not right. Unfortunately, it's never going to get the fixes to bring it up to speed, due to the fact that DRG is one of the most versatile jobs in the game(due to different wyverns as /mage etc.), and never going to be all-out DD.

So the 'DRG love' has actually made it go from sub-par to mostly mediocre.

Also, listing the effects of Ancient Circle is hardly 'DRG love' since all of the circle JAs got the same update.