I do not understand why people who don't play bard have against us enjoying our class.
I understand those who enjoy bard as it is now, and play it, but why do those who do not play seem to have issue with people wanting to have fun with something they pay for.
And I do play all jobs, so I don't see how that is relevant to bard not being enjoyable.
It should only need to be said so many times why we have issue with it.

Adding positionals to a couple of our attacks would be another way to balance the class, it would force us to play in melee range since moving from flank to back would take longer the farther away from the boss we are, unless there is more than one gcd between positionals, then we could still play at range. At least positionals are fun.
Or just doing more damage in melee range.

There is a number of options they could have chosen.