How do we feel about tank damage right now?

[Shurrikhan]

its clear from your responses your a dps fanatic. if you truly don't believe that tanks influence party outcome just as big if not bigger then healers then it shows how little you feel about your job.
positioning is kinda key element especially for mechanics and as for dps being able to stay in certain places for most of the time is rather important for dps classes especially those who cant cast during movements not to mention some dps actually do more damage based on positions.

so if this is what you think tanks are "a poor man dps" then samsta is right, go be a dps class it will probably make you happier.

You can be the most hardcore lovers of all aspects a la Tank and still come to similar lines of thought as what Nedkel has pointed out, simply due to how few of those tanking aspects exist in XIV anyways. Positioning is basically a non-mechanic. Enmity is a non-mechanic. Active mitigation has been relegated to hitting things nearly on CD with potential memorized delays. Healer-tank-specific interactions are now basically non-mechanics. So on and so forth.

You could maybe have made these points when ARR had just launched and tanking lent itself diversely and had huge potential for growth despite its weaker take on the role compared to many of its competitors (little to no AM outside of CDs, fewer positioning concerns except insofar as aiding melee positionals, etc., etc). Now, though? You'd need to make the point of how you'd actually bring those things into the game before you start calling people dps fanatics for, say, liking to optimize all that XIV tanks really have left to optimize: dps.