The job has been "fixed" only a week ago, it's normal that it's not represented that much in Savage clears yet, because people did not consider bringing it to Eden when WHM and SCH were doing fine. We have yet to see more clears and more data, but I'm fairly sure it terms of "doing what it's supposed to do" aka dps, heal and buff, AST is fine without any further buff now.

The sensitive issue is the card system, because some people don't like it and felt like switching to another job because of that. The devs have said they would not change it for now, so the discussion is kind of meeting a dead end here. Maybe people will get used to it, maybe they won't. Players are invited to keep providing feedback, so maybe later in 5.X cycle they could reconsider that question.