Agree with all the OP’s points about Bard.

Unfortunately the developers and vast majority of the Bard community do not.

We will never see a full-on FF Bard job with a support oriented job with harp as their main weapon in all its glory.

We will never see a full-on Archer job that focuses solely on the laser beam archery stuff that dominates Bard’s gameplay.

I absolutely think they should be split so the identity of both jobs squished into this hybrid can be fully realised and not halved to make space for the fact you’re playing two different jobs at once. But, tragically, it won’t ever happen. I mean why would they when Bard is so massively popular