Don't like Blue Mage? Here is how to convince SE to change it...

[Alleo]

Is that actually possible though?
There's the fact that Blue Mage needs to learn skills from monsters, versus every other class that are given the skills automatically. This means that, as Yoshida said, many Blue Mages would be harassed for not having gotten this or that skill already. This is a real problem that can't simply be ignored.
There's also the fact that the skills a Blue Mage could learn would have to be very limited and very nerfed, and then I'm sure that a part of the community would have complained that this doesn't feel like a Blue Mage at all.

Simple solution: First dont let Blue mages into content if they dont have certain skills. People cant go into duties if they lack ilvl so why not the same with skills? Heck their release of this job in 4.5 could have been a great way to say: We want you to have time to gather all the necessary skills before the expansion.

How do you know the necessary skills? Well have a window like the one in PVP that has the PVP skills in it thus people can see what they need to get. As soon as they have each skill they unlock the duties and just like PVP all the skills will be on the hotbar when you go into a dungeon or other instance. This way certain overpowered skills wont be able to be used and people that want to still queue up can do it. All the other time its still overpowered and the same like its now for solo content. Win win for everyone.

Thats something I thought off in a few minutes, SE had years since that question to make it work.

On the other hand, new jobs don't make existing content new. Running Omega 1 to 12 as a BLU would be the same as running them as any other caster, and as predictable in any other role.

Funny, because before BLU was announced, people were at peace with the idea that creating a new job mid-expansion was too much of a burden. Now that they did it, it seems okay to feel disappointed because they couldn't do more.

No but they give people a choice in which job to use for content. Blue mage gives none of those choices and on top of that can only run in really outdated content. I mean its probably really fun to beat up Garuda HM with it, or run another instance that you have already done x amount of times. At least with it being a normal job you could have taken it to new content too. Eureka, PotD and who knows what is coming in Shadowbringers wont be doable with at all. So I just dont see how this job will be fun for a long time.

SE did not have to release this job at the end of the old expansion. They could have taken their time to release it in Shadowbringers.

We got Blue Mage in this way due to people insistently complaining about "nothing new/ same old same old" content. We asked for this, simply put many got what they wanted, just not the way wanted it.

So complaining about no new and innovative content that is also long living means that its fine that they created a job as content?

If I want bananas and they give me apples that they have colored yellow, that does not mean that I have to be happy about it and stop complaining..