1) whats up with all the non-bards and pre-level 60s chiming in? If your havent experienced end game 3.0 bard (or mch) your opinion doesnt matter. go troll another forum.

2) 2.0 Bard was the DPS king. period! this is a historical fact. I did turn 1-2 first week with 4 bards, easily.
we were nerfed for this very reason.
Our DPS was nerfed in the form of potency and weapon damage and has slowly gone down since. T5 we were still competitive, T9 we dropped to middle and by T13 we were at the bottom of the parse. Most of us continued to play bard for the reason we were for the most part a necessity and could get parties fairly easily. I personally was strongly considering NIN for 3.0 but heard about WM and figured finally, we were getting a much needed balancing. I was wrong.

3) Yoshi acknowledging the BRD community only means that they are looking into it. Not that your going to like the changes he does implement. So lets keep holding our breathe here.