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BLU is rare. Blue Magic might not be as rare, but a dedicated BLU is rare. 6 didn't have a Blue Mage in NA release, 8 only had blue magic for a limit break, 9 ate the monsters and gained their skills. I can say that 10 had Ronso which can be close to BLU and the Tactics games had them all.

You're right that you can't do a majority of the modern content. This is because they don't want to balance the class. They want this class to be unique in ways that they can't let other classes be unique. If they were to balance it out so that it's equal with all classes then it's not really worth it. Why would I spend hours trying to get a skill that will do nothing, but give me a normal attack. At that point they might as well drop it in favor of gaining skills at the end of a quest and by then you've got another class that is exactly the same as every other class in the game.

The in-game precedent is a bad argument. They removed both of those examples because they were remnants of 1.0 and no longer made any sense. FFXIV 1.0 was unique in the way it shared certain skills that don't translate well to the current FFXIV. The last one was a literal glitch.