Let's look at Support DPS...

[LtPlebberoni]

3/3:

Another idea: Tanks have a toggle ability for enmity generation. This toggle used to be a damage/defense trade-off system based on whether they were trying to pull as MT or just deal damage as OT. What if Support DPS jobs had a similar toggle which cuts their personal damage output but strengthens their otherwise-negligible party buffs? Deactivation of this skill would cancel any active buffs. Such a system would allow Support DPS to shine in parties without blowing the overall damage out of the water, and their default OFF option would be to hold their own in solo content.

Obviously balance is a major concern. Lots of adjustments to potencies, proc rates, and accumulation of the Soul Voice Gauge would need to be made to account for the utility and activity added by changes like these. The majority of complaints I see about ShB BRD are NOT necessarily concerned with keeping high skill potencies, but the fact that the job is just boring, unsatisfying, and not exactly worth playing now with its low overall contributions. That, and we have almost zero control over *how* we support our party.

EDIT: Of importance...

To clarify where I stand, since I did come across as a jackass in the OP:
My intent isn't to be a poopoo ranting with a closed mind. If I wanted to do that, I wouldn't have posted on an active forum dedicated to discussing the very thing I'm providing feedback on. Yes, I wanted to express my own frustrations toward BRD's identity shift, but my goal here is to get a better understanding of the current systems that are in place from people who have more extensive knowledge of the game/other classes than I do. With that, I'm looking to bounce ideas back and forth, even if it won't result in any actual job redesign.
I apologize; The way I chose to word things came off as more "ragey" than the "comically miffed" look that I was aiming for, and it likely drove away good potential for the discussion I was looking for.