Blue Mage's implementation sucks. But, you aren't worse off for having it.

[Fynlar]

You do realize that effort put into this sort of sideshow content does still detract from effort put into content people actually want, right? The devs haven't figured out how to break science and logic, and somehow managed to put 100% of their effort into multiple projects at the same time.

There's a reason why we used to get 3 dungeons per patch in ARR, that it went down to 2 in HW, and went down to 1.5 again in SB... among other such growing signs of neglect.

If they released it like every other job people would complain about them not handling it differently.

Out of the countless complaints I have seen made about every other job in the game, one of the complaints I have never seen was that they didn't "handle them differently" and exclude them from content every other job got to do. I'd like to hear why you think that would be the case for a (full) BLU implementation.