Really afraid SE is going to think things are fine because of the amount of WHM/SCHs

[Shai]

Things are fine and people over-reacted / are over-reacting like always.

Are there some balancing issues? Yes. Could a few skills be tweaked to really increase their functionality? Of course.
Is the game or job broken because you can't Aero/Bio anymore? No. It isn't.

We can say the job is more boring - which is a personal opinion - but the goal was to streamline certain things and streamline often means simplify and simplifying a job that was perhaps more complex can make it feel sluggish and boring, but will it still be able to hold its own in a raid? Probably.

I really, really wish people would stop judging jobs when we don't even have access to the content the changes were built for - or the content built to handle these changes, I guess. I was kind of devastated by the changes to Scholar at first - on paper - and it irritates me to no end that my White Mage can practically solo heal and out DPS me when I'm doing DPS 90% of the time - something that would have been ridiculously hard for them to do a few weeks ago. But aside from having to adjust my notion of "what it means to be a Scholar" the job handles just fine and even things I thought were stupid - like Excog and Fey Union - I'm finding creative uses for in certain situations.

Things are different. That's all. And yes, some things need tweaking. I won't argue that. But White Mage and Scholar are going to pull through this. I promise.
They are both working just fine.