This has to be tested in raids before we can make up any concrete judgement...

On paper it looks like SMN is way better, but as people learn to play BLM better, they might be able to get a lot out of BLM in raids.

I've said it many times since the Heavensward release, but why do so many players look at Bismarck/Ravana fights when comparing jobs?(not saying Hai Hai is) By that logic, MNK would never had been picked for raids in 2.0... Primals are completely different, and there's usually a lot more movement in them. Raids can easily screw over BLM ofc, but we should wait and see how much movement there actually are before discounting BLM for raids.