Is ranged support dps needed as a job type anymore?

[Aword3213]

I read an interesting thread in a Chinese Forum concluded that EW is the most balanced expansion FF14 has ever been. The gap between melee/caster DPS and ranged physical DPS in EW has been reduced drastically.

In patch 5.05, the gap between melee and ranged is 9.817139508
in patch 6.05 the gap between melee and ranged is 4.83723325

Source

As for uptimes being easy, I think uptime strategy requires extra effort to plan out and precise positioning to execute. Those uptime strats don't come up at day 1. I'm actually quite okay with rewarding melee with higher dps

Regarding casters, I agree that if SE keeps giving mobility options for caster dps, they should keep narrowing the gap between physical and magical ranged.