"This may come as a shock to players who only main one job but other people might try your job if it were better"

First off I dont only play Bard its my main Job that I take because its what I not only know best but can play without much thought allowing me to just focus on mechanics. But the rotation or rather what I do in the rotation is always changing due to that RNG which keeps it interesting.

If the Job were better is the only way you would try it?
But to us that have been comfortably playing the Job it already feels good to play ya we wanted that 2 bloodletters, a way to spread dots, A damage increase for ourselves from Battle Voice, And more support kit ( music animations).

What we got with Endwalker is the 2 bloodletters, a Self and party damage buff that gives our rotation even more of a purpose to fill the codas and give us the buff we are now working towards. Sure they couldve also went the route of making soul gage be able to be spent on something other then what it currently is but they opted to tie the whole kit together by collecting stickers for each song essentially. On top of that we have another skill to use after Apex which is just adding to our burst phase.

Overall for Endwalker the Job is better then what it was in Shadowbringers at least from what I am seeing.

Everyone keeps bringing up Foes like its this ground breaking thing reducing enemy damage or its early form buffing team damage. Bard has a way to reduce enemies damage with troubador, and buffing damage you have battle voice and now the codas so I dont see the issue.

We need to keep in mind why SE removed Foes in the first place. Bards were being taken into a party because of those 2 skills over the other range DPS giving the others kind of the short end of the stick. SE really wants all jobs to be very even at what they do and it shows with all the changes they keep making to the jobs.

Foes is an overated skill it just was. It was good but it also made bard the go to pick for ranged. Now because Foes is removed some people dont want to play the job just because it lost that skill I mean then the issue was kind of solved because people were not playing bard because they liked bards playstyle.