Hey man, I know you don't like Bard, but have you tried playing a different job? All their songs deal direct damage already. The problem with making a pure bard is that UNIQUE utility does not exist in the game anymore and would leave the job feeling woefully lacking. Surely you understand this very basic concept, right? Making it fart music wouldn't solve anything, and would really only make it worse.
MCH and all physical ranged classed WILL NOT EVER deal enough damage to put them on the same level as melee classes, this is a deliberate design decision by square enix to prevent people from locking melee's out of party finder groups.
And what happens to the bow weapon type? You know, the thing that Bard has been using for a decade now? Would that just get deleted entirely? This is what I mean when I say people who wish to separate Bard and Archer are thoughtless.