Let's redefine "damage taxes"

[Keiisuke]

Considering difficulty? How? From whose point of view? It's purely subjective, we all have different affinities with certain types of gameplay.
The MCH is designed as a selfish DPS, the job has nothing else to offer. Therefore, he should bring damage to the party the same way a SAM or BLM do, maybe not the same numbers giving that the machinist has more mobility (depends on how we see things today), but he should not be that far behind the two others in terms of ADPs.

Regarding the statement that the MCH should be last, it makes me laugh.
When SAM is at the top of the chart in aDPS, and also top 3 in rDPS no one gives a flying F, but when we start talking about the MCH, hell no dude. People are gatekeeping the job, preventing him from being where he should be.

If people are so mad they can't accept that in the game a ranged DPS can do more damage than a melee, then give the job some utility so we can finally justify his place in the Physical Ranged DPS category.