There is no meaningful future for Blue Mage outside of one day being promoted to a full job. Given its complete absence from the EW patch roadmap, it is clear that updating this content is no longer a priority. Whether for lack of passion or lack of resources, Blue Mage is now a "whenever we get to it" project. The barrier to entry is too obtuse for a game that has many other side activities that are easy to jump into. I will forever maintain that allowing the word "limited" to enter this game's vocabulary with this job lead to nothing good.

In any case, if male Viera somehow became a thing then so can a full Blue Mage job. Those who would rather defend the limited design would then go on to have the same reaction that the Viera haters had, "I can't believe they listened to the complainers!" Well yes if there wasn't a problem, people wouldn't be complaining about a job added all the way back in 2019.