Whats with the chemist obsession?

[Mimilu]

Where people fighting for Samurai over dark knight? Yeesh, I hate the idea that Dark Knight could have been a DPS. But I hate just as much that Samurai became a DPS while advertising it as a Tank in their benchmark

There was a very small group of people annoyed SAM didn't make it.
There was more people upset that DRK wasn't a DPS. Back when Yoshi-P took over XIV, there was a player-survey that asked what kind of jobs people would like to see and DRK was used as an example for "A DPS job that focuses on enfeebling enemies". Add to DRK's history in past FFs being a damage dealer that sacrifices its own survivability for damage and darkness, people had their hearts set on DPS-DRK and felt betrayed (this is one of the reasons why Yoshi-P doesn't do hypothetical or bounce ideas with fans anymore).

(2) they mentioned a mudra healer like CHM, but "it didnt work out" but yet we got AST, which presses stuff every 30s, rather than every cast.

With AST, their cards are there own thing, separate from their main ways to heal.
I think they still could do a Mix mechanic for Chemist but it can't be its main way to heal (it can still be involved with healing though).

(3) We still dont have a lower GCD healer (or tank) like NIN/MNK. The best we have, is to stack spell speed. (DRK has blood weapon, and that didnt lower it to 2s, and nor was it up full time, just on occasion)

Healers rarely use GCDs to heal as is, so to SE they probably don't need them (what with SE's stance that healers need to at least heal, with DPSing being left to "play-style"). (Not to mention clipping issues)