Why balance jobs to just high-end raids?

This is all assuming core content is structured properly to compliment the balance. And it’s not. Nothing takes effort and trials I can afk in any role and still clear it with zero cooperation from others

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Originally Posted by Semirhage

Oh I see, Square Enix "never nerfs things" because when it's a class you don't care about it doesn't count. Holy's potency has been reduced multiple times, what are you talking about? It's in the version history. Holy started as a flat 240 potency, no falloff. It's now 140, no falloff. That's a significant nerf over time.

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It had a falloff. But for some thought, I thought it was 50% less for other enemies,, but it was 10% less for earch enemy till 50%. Then yeah, Holy was nerfed, true. My bad. Im sorry fot that.

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Originally Posted by SaltyDaddy

It had a falloff. But for some thought, I thought it was 50% less for other enemies,, but it was 10% less for earch enemy till 50%. Then yeah, Holy was nerfed, true. My bad. Im sorry fot that.

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Whitemage aside, CUB3 has nerfed jobs in the past. It's only relatively recently that they stopped doing it because people, whose utterly overperforming jobs got reigned in a bit, complained and we can't have people feeling bad in this game.
Now we're running into the problem where potencies get more and more bloated over the course of an expansion because that's what happens when all you do is buff everything.

Take Summoner in Shadowbringers as an example. Both DoTs were slightly nerfed in 5.2 and then in 5.3 they nerfed Tri-Disaster by 50% because Summoner was outperfoming Blackmage even at the high end.
Seems like a much more elegant solution to me than buffing every other caster to be honest.