How could you do this to AST?

[Absurdity]

I'm fairly new to AST; with it now being my main cuz I fell in love with it due to the card/buffing system and how stunning all the spells and abilities look. Specially compared to how lackluster/ordinary WHM and SCH abilities/spells look. Going back to your original post, you mentioned that you were going to have to switch because you needed a shield healer since your friend goes WHM; but I've always read/seen that Diurnal Sect should always be your go to choice when playing AST and that you should really only ever use Diurnal when playing with another AST. So you should still be able to play AST just fine.

The issue people have is that they simply wanted to keep playing Noct AST.

This hasn't really been about numbers because of course AST is still going to be viable when they remove Nocturnal Sect. Over those 30 pages in the thread it's been proven time and time again that mathematically Diurnal is just the superior AST sect, even with a WHM, as long as the fight doesn't literally force you to use shields on top of mitigation to survive.

People are simply disappointed that they now have to play Diurnal because it's the only thing available to them.