Blue Mage might actually be a good thing.

[kikix12]

also you can solo garuda and Garuda ex easily with a lvl 70 no need for pet shenanigans of separating them just kill them

You need to read more carefully instead of filling in the blanks randomly yourself. Separating them will save about a minute of time. It's virtually impossible to kill them when they are together, so if you solo or do not use pet, you'll just have to wait them out and eat the ultimate. Not a problem, yes, especially for a class that can just heal itself before Garuda will even become mortal again. But it eats time. With blue pulling away one of the mobs, they can be quickly and easily killed to save all that time.

Similarly with Ramuh. I specifically mentioned the orbs and the resulting increase in damage forcing me to heal more often as time goes on. That will be less necessary if there will be another person to collect the orbs as well. And by collecting the orbs they'll break the chain too...so yeah. Not an issue.

Probably a higher damage dealer than Red Mage, or at least red mage that is overmelded unlike me. And your point is?! You can "Skip Soar" in synced Zurvan too, but not every party can. That doesn't make those that cannot skip it a dead-weight. So those that cannot skip the adds for some reason will still very much take advantage of another person in the instance to make the run smoother/faster.

its just this entire premise of FF14 Blue mage is extremely flawed and probably not as overpowered as they say it is.

Feel free to make stuff up as you see fit. I prefer facts to fiction. This class may be a flop or a huge success. It may be overpowered or not (at which point...it's chance of being allowed into current content rises...so you complaining about that is hypocrisy).