More people play MCH now because the job is no longer a broken, needlessly complex mess with a RNG rotation and a bunch of abilities with no synergy in it. It’s not necessarily because they’re trying to get more people to play it, the job has needed help since the very beginning.

If a job doesn’t have many people playing it, that’s a symptom of a problem. It doesn’t mean that the few crazy people continuing to play the job should be rewarded for their loyalty. I have played MCH since HW early release and the job is much better now than it ever has been, though I think they still have work to do on it.

I may not speak for all MCH players, but you don’t either. I get that people don’t like change, and not all the changes they’ve done have been the best, but at least we can say all the jobs in the game are finally balanced, more or less, and they’re able to add new jobs to the game without completely busting others into oblivion like in other MMOs.