What do you guys think is the cause of severe lack of Tank users?

[Kabooa]

Do you think it's just lack in number of tank jobs or people simply wanting to do more damage? I've noticed that lot of sprouts jumping into FF14 lately, thanks to(?) Corona, decides to start out as a dps and was simply curious.

Sprouts probably don't have the foreknowledge that people on this forum do.

Even if things were perfectly divided, you would have 25% Tank, 12.5% healer, and 57.5% DPS because that's what's available to start, and it doesn't shift that much.

A new player is going to be drawn more by aesthetics than anything else, and that doesn't favor tanks either.

You want to play a caster, that excludes tanks.

You want to play some sort of gun/bow class, that excludes tanks.

You want to play fist fighter, that excludes tanks, etc etc.

There are less archetypes / fantasies represented by tanks than by the other jobs.