What is the Caster Role for 5.0 Going Forward and Where is balance?

[Archwizard]

Hot take: I think an effort needs to be made to flatten out the slope between casters.

No, I don't mean that every caster needs to be equal or homogenized -- go on leaving Raise out of the hands of a BLM.
But, Raising itself needs a standardized DPS value like other utilities; SMN and RDM both have access to it, but SMN suffers a lower damage penalty for having it (since it can't game Dualcast) and also brings some hefty utilities aside that massively increase its value. RDM on the other hand virtually just brings Raise and still pays a full tax for holding it, meaning its value plummets after progression. Standardizing the value of Raise means reducing this tax on RDM, which opens avenues for either higher damage or (more fittingly) even stronger utility that can retain a value throughout progression, such as En-elementing allies' weapons or hastening spells.

And what do I mean by standardizing? Well for a start, make Verraise an exception to Dualcast, so RDM isn't treated like it theoretically casts it 4 times a minute (since it shouldn't).
Perhaps reduce the penalty for healers throwing Raises as well, so that it isn't "preferable" for a DPS to spend their own MP doing so.

I also think this means BLM should have a utility in some form. At the going rate, BLM's our Magikarp, gaining all of its QoL effects late in the leveling process and gaining its value late in progression when death is a non-issue (both meaning they don't have to sit out for someone with Raise and that their value isn't 1:1 scalar to Weakness) and gear amplifies their output.
I'm not saying BLM needs to plummet in the damage rankings, but something small to stabilize their value within a group could go a long way.
Besides, throwing out curses is pretty iconic.