In abyssea they dont have a crit based weapon skill and due to epeen's being top priority for most people, that makes them useless. Never mind that they can churn out 3-4k ws every 5 seconds, because it cant crit for 4-5k its considered too weak.

Honestly a Fudo SAM can keep up nicely with a VS monk because of how often it can ws in comparison to the monk.

Play a job you like, and ignore the haters.