Quote Originally Posted by HyoMinPark View Post
This has always been extremely common with BRD, who is by far the easiest to play DPS and has always been the most popular (with the exception of ShB—even HW bowmage was one of the highest played DPS jobs back then despite the mass exodus of BRDs): people like the bow and arrow aesthetic, or they are drawn to the idea of a more traditional, Final Fantasy BRD—and then sorely disappointed when that does not exist in this game. There have been countless topics about this on both this forum and the FFXIV subreddits. The same applies to WHM.
Um, what?

I don't really care about most of your post's argument but this is just flat out wrong about bard. It's not popular (and hasn't been for a long time), it is not a low APM DPS nor is it "easy" by any nonsubjective metric - DNC and MCH both had simpler rotations, while with BRD missing a proc by even a few hundred milliseconds is a DPS loss.

In ShB, the only DPS that had significantly higher median than average was MCH, suggesting it was the easiest - but this seems to have been fixed by EW, as it is no longer the case. Could still argue it's easier because it's a set rotation instead of having to watch for/worry about procs, though.

You may have had a case allllllll the way back in ARR but that's the better part of a decade out of date.