What even is the purpose of all those non melee/blm jobs?

[Tiramu]

Entire Zodiark is resolved in his hitbox. Hydaelyn has the staff PBAoE that happens like three times per fight and may cost you half a GCD if you are a mega safety gamer, you can also just eat it with no worries (3 lost GCDs do not make the gap between melee and pranged/second rate casters). Do we need to talk about Endsinger? Barbariccia has a couple PBAoEs but they are followed immediately by donuts, so the whole point of range being safer is irrelevant here; tangles initially pull you out of melee range but they also interrupt casts; the small randomly spawned falling rocks AoEs in tornado phase are not a problem for melee but resolve faster than a cast can finish, screwing over casters the most.

Overall, yes. In fact, all of EW EX battles are like this.

I said, explicitly, the game is broader than EW content. Jobs are balanced with all content in consideration. Many of the battles, Ex and otherwise, within XIV, that stuff matters.

And yeah, I'm not touching your "difficulty" hot takes. Useless effort. And I had plenty of those yesterday with the patch. Meme takes are good in moderation.

Its not really a hot take though is it, its a principal that exists in most all game design to some degree or other.

Higher ceiling = higher performance
Lower ceiling = lower performance

That principal has nothing to do with elitism or whatever else you're trying to spin it as, but to do with the reward for trying or mastering more challenging things. If a Dancer was unable to clear the content due to the job being incapable of contributing then you'd have a point, but its more than capable. If people are locking jobs out of content when they are capable of clearing, then that shows the group isnt confident in their own ability to clear and should be nobodies problem but their own.

[Azuri]

I said, explicitly, the game is broader than EW content. Jobs are balanced with all content in consideration. Many of the battles, Ex and otherwise, within XIV, that stuff matters.

Stares at the state of lvl 70 ults

Yeah, that ain't it, chief.

[Beddict]

I said, explicitly, the game is broader than EW content. Jobs are balanced with all content in consideration. Many of the battles, Ex and otherwise, within XIV, that stuff matters.

Stares at the state of lvl 70 ults

Yeah, that ain't it, chief.

Yeah, Azuri is right, SE doesn't bother balancing Jobs for content outside the previous expac. The FFXIV subreddit mods and MrHappy had a group interview with Yoshi-P during the Endwalker Media Tour and he was asked about the balance of old Ultimates. You can find the full interview here, and here is a transcript for the question:

/r/ffxiv: With the change or renewal of jobs, especially Summoner, what are your plans for balancing old Ultimates? Could you tell us about your plans for future Ultimate content as well?

Yoshida: For previous Ultimate content we actually did not make any sort of adjustments specifically. Since their implementation, people’s item level has only gone up so people have better gear to challenge these Ultimate fights so it might actually be… I don’t want to say easier but it’s not as strenuous so to speak.

And we just recently saw Rich Campbell play one of the Ultimate fights, MrHappy was there to help him out, but all of the community was so excited for it so I was really happy to see that.

As for future Ultimate content our next one is Dragonsong, again apologies that this has been delayed, and we are on target to release it at 6.1. We have our staff members that have completed their work on Endwalker content already working on this next Ultimate. I am hopeful that we will make it in time.

Beyond that we are already thinking about the next Ultimate, we’re hoping we can do at least one more in the 6.x series. I hope we can do more but for now we are thinking about the next one after the Dragonsong War Ultimate. We are starting to put together our image and putting together some artwork so we are hopeful we can deliver content to you.

He straight up said they didn't bother balancing old Ultimates going into Endwalker. They just dropped shit like EW SMN into UCoB where it is the highest damage Job in level 70 content. For comparison, BLM is the lowest damage Job in level 70 content. The devs can't be bothered to balance Jobs for old Ultimate raids and you think they give a shit about stuff like old EX Trials or whatever? Not in the slightest. If it isn't MSQ or current expac, the content may as well be considered dead to them.