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None of what you said about the Masked Carnivale is an objective flaw, it's just personal prefence and content shouldn't be catered to what you specifically like. Why is the fact that the Carnivale is solo an issue? If it required a group, people would then complain about it (because some people only want to complain no matter what).
Masked Carnivale is a one-and-done content only if you treat it so. It has weekly targets and I use it as my main way to get Allied Seals. This principle applies to every content in the game. Isn't Aglaia, for example, a one and done content if you are not interested in loot? Or an EX trial, if you are not interested in loot (or parsing - not like people seriously parse EXs anyway)?

If anything, it's exactly Blue Log that people complain about (me included). It's not real content (but an excuse), it doesn't offer a far more worthwhile selection of rewards (it has the same rewards as the Carnivale) and it definitely doesn't ask you to approach fights in "new and challenging ways" as we are still talking about casual content. What you said applies to BLU savage raiding, which is entirely separated from the Log.

Saying that BLU is awaste of effort because it offers content that only BLU can do doesn't make sense and it is quite silly. You are also asking the game to walk a very dangerous path. Following your logic, Ultimate raids shouldn't exist because only a minuscule portion of the playerbase accepts the challenge. The time would be far, far better spent on creating more dungeons and alliance raids, for example.

You should refrain from using expressions like "at large" or "majority of players" if you don't have data (as pedantic as this sounds). Are you really using "content creators" and memes as an argument?
Not to mention how a significant portion of the most heated haters of BLU never actually played it, only played it at release and is generally very misinformed about the job. With a quick research you will find out that the people that actually like the job

You could create an "unlimited" Blue Mage and make it the fourth, real caster. Except it wouldn't have all the things that make current BLU fun (as I have already told you, you are ironically making an even more limiting version of BLU). FFXIV is not FFIX. Its design is rigid and not very creative (at least not in its current state). It sucks that BLU is your favourite FF job or whatever, you can voice your frustration all you want (although this is obvious, I'm talking in general). Let's not be hypocrites here and say that BLU is a waste because only a niche portion of the playerbase engages with it and that it should be made more accesible (because as I have already told you, this backfires pretty quickly).