AST (and DRG) had their improvements pushed to 7.0 PLD are getting theirs in 6.3

[Rithy255]

Despite leveling Dragoon I hardly played it outside that, But I heard mainly positive things, I think from what I've heard is it will be hard to make future changes so it makes sense why they're waiting for 7.0 In my opinion.

Astrologian generally doesn't need any emergency changes, I like the current state of the Job although It generally fits into the meta and the game (I believe) they even recently got some decent changes and I personally don't think they're in need of any Major rework, maybe potency adjustments but I don't really know, I think it's good that white mage fills the "beginner healer" while Astro is more for a challenge, I guess difficulty is subjective but I like how the job generally plays I don't think it needs any urgent reworks, maybe changes and adjustments.

The fact that Paladin wasn't changed despite being the poster boy, with the raid buffs being put into 2minutes shows that PLD prolly wasn't really looked at all to much this expansion, that a lot of blocking effects don't proprerly work with a lot of the new mechs put into harder content shows that PLD generally needs to be looked at, I don't think PLD's issues are just a "output issue" either but I doubt we will get much in the way of utility changes.
We're likely just going to get Fight or flight removed, super buffed req window and that's about it in all honesty I don't think the PLD changes are going to be considered too much, I would like a general rework (PLD currently is fun though) but It's likely just gonna change existing PLD into a burst job.

I could be wrong they could change things like how PLD's utility isn't even that good and it's defensives suck, they could somehow make it's rotation even more fun then current pld but I don't think we're gonna get those changes it's going to be ways to simplify it and make sure it fits under raid buffs, I don't really see a preference here, I guess we will wait until the patch notes and just pray they're in a positive direction for the job. I hope Astro and DRG mains also get good changes in the future.

[Absurdity]

The fact that Paladin wasn't changed despite being the poster boy, with the raid buffs being put into 2minutes shows that PLD prolly wasn't really looked at all to much this expansion

I think it's less that they didn't look at Paladin and more that they arbitrarily decided that every party buff should be 2 minutes, because putting thought into what you're doing is heresy, without considering the consequences of stacking every damage multiplier in the same 15 second window and the effect it has on jobs that aren't designed around that. Paladin isn't at all the only job that suffers from the 2 minute meta.