You're complaining about melee in Garuda EX, but perhaps forgetting about casters in Titan EX. The Titan fight is far far easier for melee to maximize their DPS. And Ifrit EX doesn't seem to matter much either way (assuming healers don't murder melee with Searing Winds). So uh... sounds like a trade-off, no? I have DRG and BLM leveled, and simply take the easier job to its respective fight.

I'd rather take melee to Ultima HM as well, as I seem to be constantly interrupted when trying to play BLM on it.