For the Bard outcry, while I agree it should have more of a support focus given its FF identity, it barely lost anything in the transition to Shadowbringers. It went from lauded best designed job to "oh my god ruined" because of...losing a non interactive passive buff and a clunky as hell cast bar. That's it. If its not supportive enough now let's not pretend it was in SB either.

And sticking with the bard example it has perhaps the most unique, least homogenised DPS gameplay. It's burst cycle is every 80s, continual ogcd procs on a priority system different from Dancer, apex "money shot" built up exclusively from procs. No other job feels like it, it's the antithesis of homogenisation, unless you degrade the definition of it to "does damage, has procs".

The imbalance, which as ever with xiv isn't even that imbalanced, has nothing to do with homogenisation (I could see a case for tanks being homogenised but they're still tightly balanced), if ninja has a high "utility tax" but dragoon doesn't. Balance aside every DPS feels very different