DPS balance is pretty bad. If you are going casual, the balance doesn't matter too much since you get carried by gear mostly. If you want to go hardcore eventually like you said, I would actually recommend learning two jobs within the same role.

Regardless of casual or hardcore, being able to flex within a role is an invaluable asset. Most of the time they share similar, if not the same, BiS so you can swap out easily. If you play both jobs at a decent level, you can choose which one to better fit the situation - PF or Static? Prog or Clear?

If that is not something that sounds appealing, just play RDM. It may be harder to find a party (i'm a mch i know the woes), but you will find one eventually.