Tanking feels unimportant

[Bhearil]

That's very true, actually. Lots of things could be wrong. Sleep Apnea, poor diet, sleep schedule, general fatigue...

Not sure what that has to do with playing a tank though, that's general health/wellness.

Dont try to derail the issue. Problem is that Tanks in general most of the time are the most simplistic classes outside of their burst windows and even then are not THAT intense. After a while it feels so simple that you can eventually turn your brain off and still perform decent your role. One thing is muscular memory and another not needing brain cells to play at a bare minimum level due to how simple it is.

Right now tanks have a very low floor and ceiling which means you "cap" too quick and have no way to improve which derails the motivations since "hey i can no longer improve with this job since i reached its peak, so ill try another job because it gets boring after a while". Self improvement is a great motivator as well as having a fun gameplay, lack both and people wont play that job for long, hell even lacking one too much can be a killer, look how popular monk is right now since its no longer the DPS God and is one of the least played jobs in the game due to his kit being a complete mess and unchanged since 2.0 mostly