The problem is and I'm going to be that dissenting voice....

People pushed really really hard to make DNC fall more into their supporting skills and they should know full well what that meant for them going forward.

They took away its rather interesting niche of being a true skirmisher, DNC had to get in the enemies face to do their step finishes and flourish rotations which made them a somewhat risky, but rewarding job that flit in to burst and then flit back out to do their standard rotation, this was afforded before but taken away because the loudest voices begged for the DNC to be more supportive, to stay back, to focus on buffing their allies more

SE gave those people exactly what they asked for and anyone that has played this game for any length of time knows

the dev team does not like supports being powerful because the games' balance begins to revolve around them.

I wasn't here for HW but I was for ARR and and I remember how necessary things like Stone skin were, you simply couldn't do certain turns of coil without it, the game was being balanced around that ability, so SE did away with it, as they did protect, shellga, cleric stance and many other things that would deem as "we have to balance exclusively around this"

So ever since, supports don't get to be strong, they get to support and not much else.

DNC had a massive identity crisis in ShB, you could see part of a vision that SE wanted for them (a skirmisher dps) that was bogged down by this whole "but dancers must support" and now they've learned further into that and what is DNC now?

A cheerleader and not much else and that's because people were pushing too hard for something that they should know throughout the past....

SE will take away or they will purposely under tune because they don't want the game to revolve around it.

BRD funnily enough for the first time in a long long time, actually escaped their own personal identity crisis, they actually play....well, like a bard, a tempo paced job that bolsters through song, exactly as it was always supposed to be and the reason BRD is doing so well despite also being penalized for having supportive abilities but DNC isn't?

BRD spreads their deficit across the entire group so it's much easier to pick up the slack, DNC is entirely reliant on their partner being a DPS machine and doing double the work to make up for their shortfall.

Now you have to ask yourself an important question when it comes to DNC, what exactly do you want SE to buff on it?

If they buff their RDPS, they will likely lose more personal dps as further tax, remember SE does not want a supportive job to take over the game like SCHs did back in ARR.
If they buff their DPS, they will lose more RDPS, they'll likely come back to a more comfortable personal spot, but not be as strong supporting their team

Personally, I'd just do away with Dance Partner entirely and go all in with Step Burst Windows but that's just me.