Dear SE, I am a Healer

[Barraind]

There are people who main Ranged DPS or more so BRD because they enjoy that side of it. RDM isn't a support job.

Uh...

Red mage has group buffs, a heal, a res and can mana battery. Thats about as "support" as you get in this game.

Its honestly one of the biggest downsides of every game going smaller and smaller in raid and group sizes. EQ's era of games let you play classes that were mostly support roles, either buffing and off healing, or debuffing and crowd control, or a mixture of all those because it was balanced around 6 person groups and less strict damage requirements. Then Wow's era of games had 5 person groups and tighter damage requirements, so support started becoming baked in to tanks and some dps. Now the current era sits at 4 person groups, has tight damage requirements (and you cant give up a dps to have a support class and do anything with any real speed) so the concept of "support" is pretty much "what else does the dps's dps skills do"

To be fair, properly was mentioned but ranged physical role has not gotten a new job in the same amount of time as healers, and before brd they had even less choice for said role.

Ranged dps is still a sub-role of dps.