Confusion: Archer to Bard? Where is the Ranger Job?

[JudgeN]

if you want to talk classic final fantasy the bard in FF4 used his harp for ranged DD aswell as buffs. so for the bard job to be used by a class in FF14 it could only go on the ranged weapon user.

I know what bards use and how they play that's not the issue. The issue is the move from a full on a DD to something that is not a full on DD. I have no problem with the job bard, but a DD job is probably going to be taken away and moved to support with this transition. I don't feel that it is correct move, I think they should add bard as its own separate job and start a specialization of support jobs from it.