Given the pattern of the Dev team it appears pretty intentional what they are doing to MRD.
I would love to have some real damage capability, but they just don't see MRD how we do.

My hope is that we will forget about all our complaints once the new jobs are released and no one is using the standard classes anymore. Until then I guess we just have to suck it up cause I have yet to see any significant improvements to MRD and have only seen them get worse.

But honestly, I still feel as though I can lead my party to victory with MRD so it's not like we're playing the "Gau", "Cait Sith" "Quina", or "Kimarhi" of FFXIV.