Thank you for making Blue Mage unique!

[Valdegarde]

Then you should be happy that they made it stay true to itself rather than having a dumbed down version with the vast majority of its iconic skills being stripped of everything that makes them fun (such as crowd control, status effects, level based skills, random silly stuff, elemental weakness system, etc.).

Don't you dare tell me what makes Blue Mage fun for me. This is not it. Never once did I take joy in finally learning Grand Delta as Strago to just kick everyone from the party and go repeatedly use it on level 8 things for giggles. On the flip side I never cared that Degenerator or Bad Breath didn't work on Ultimecia, because I finally earned Shockwave Pulsar and could use that.

Stay true to itself? You're kidding me. This is as far as it gets. You might have your own opinion of Blue Mages, but I have mine too. And mine isn't satisfied with a ghost of a functional job just for the sake of preserving perceived novelty aspects.

Go back and play FFV and use Roulette over and over just to amuse yourself, I'd rather actually have a job capable of using Grand Delta, Nova, Cry in the Night, Aqualung, etc. in important fights alongside the rest of the party. Did you know Aqualung was non-elemental in FFV? I don't think hitting elemental weaknesses is as integral to Blue Mage as you think it is.