Is ranged support dps needed as a job type anymore?

[RaZz0r]

It used to have a real support niche that justified its playstyle, now it's just an arbitrarily easy job you put your weakest raid member on, so their mistakes hurt you the least.

you say that like other jobs are hard to play almost all jobs in ffxiv are pretty easy to play at a pretty decent level hell summoner can make a single button macro chain that is good enough to get purple parses.
Some might be a bit harder to master but that is not enough reason for some jobs to do several thousand less damage at the higher end just cause they are " support jobs "