Let's redefine "damage taxes"

[Absurdity]

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.

It's also funny because it presumes that this game didn't exist until ShB. Yeah yeah, Shadowbringers is probably when a majority of these people started playing but did everyone else get dementia? Not like Bard and Machinist weren't some of the top dps in Heavensward and Stormblood.

In Heavensward they were able to keep up with BLM and MNK despite rDPS not even existing, everything back then was basically just aDPS but with single target padding getting added to your dps as well.
The same goes for Stormblood where Bard and Machinist could still keep up with some of the top dps jobs, just not quite as well since Samurai and Black Mage were completely busted, and Machinist had one of the most convoluted and punishing rotations ever.