As a Blm since ARR launch, being a caster has rarely felt so unrewarding as of now. We need to put in a lot more work than melee to not even be able to keep up with them dps wise. We have positioning issues, uptime issues, lack of mobility, yet melee out-dps us without even trying.
Unpopular opinion, but Blm should do more dps than melee. Blm has zero utility, which was always used as an excuse for its high dmg, but we don't do any more atm. We traded high numbers against being able to move at will and against having anything to help the party (what little we had was taken from us). That was not a problem, cause what we brought was killing the boss faster, but since we don't atm, the only reason to even bring a caster these days is the 1% buff and a tad faster lb build up.