Damage "taxes" deserve serious reconsideration

[Rilifane]

Then provide a meaningful example because old dungeon bosses aren't it.
And you forget that no class has their full toolkit at that level range and we had countless class and mechanic changes over the years so it's even more meaningless to bring up an old dungeon boss of all things. But since you are fond of them... Nidhogg has a hitbox that is basically the entire platform - I'm sure melees struggle really hard there.

No, old dungeon bosses are not a legitimate reason for taxes existing.
In which world do you balance around a freaking old leveling dungeon instead of endgame? Dungeons which have absolutely no requirements for which classes you end up with. Dbl DNC? Dbl DRG? It all happens and it's all fine. Overwriting each others buffs when you have doubles is a bigger dps loss than anything you brought up.

And you can cover the spinny phase just fine on both melee and caster.
How about not running outside? If you stay close to mid while dodging the cones you can in fact easily cast your Fire IVs. You can even easily hit all side positions if you stay closer to the back cone and simple TN if you should have a back positional.
Not to mention it happens once in the fight. Sooo... try again?