Let's redefine "damage taxes"

[T-Owl]

I can't even understand why we are still debating on "X job is harder than Y".
All jobs are getting easier, positionnals barely exists anymore, casters gets more and more instant cast and mobility.

At this point, every midcore player have the necessary skill it takes to learn the basics of a job within an hour.
The exception being SMN that will ask at most 10 minutes.

This is not Heavensward where all jobs were quite punishing.
This is Endwalker where most jobs press 1 2 3 and plays a specific partition every minutes.

To be honest, I feel like the only disparity in difficulty where the differences really matter that it starts to feel unfair is SMN, because they have simplicty and are fully mobile over most of their rotation. But SMN also kind of has the issue that it comes off like a level 60 job playing with level 90s in terms of its toolkit. With ranged dps, Bard is kind of an outlier, but the different to Bard and Machinist, who I would rank somewhat equal, aren't as massive.

[Aikaal]

To be honest, I feel like the only disparity in difficulty where the differences really matter that it starts to feel unfair is SMN, because they have simplicty and are fully mobile over most of their rotation. But SMN also kind of has the issue that it comes off like a level 60 job playing with level 90s in terms of its toolkit. With ranged dps, Bard is kind of an outlier, but the different to Bard and Machinist, who I would rank somewhat equal, aren't as massive.

SMN is extremely strong at 70 with UCoB. Summoner's core rotation doesn't change starting at 50. They have the most simplistic and frustration rotation. It is really simple but the moment you delay buff windows, Summoners have nothing to make them hold. You either desync your Bahamut or you spam ruin III. It's terrible to the point you can argue optimizing SMN is neither easy nor difficult. It is simply impossible.