Anyone else think caster has suffered this expansion? (hopes for the future)

[Basteala]

EW SMN is one of the most vapidly designed jobs XIV has ever introduced and I'm tired of pretending to be nice about it. There is no thought to playing it, no planning, nothing. It brings nothing new or interesting and has no room for depth or growth- not without needing another extensive rework. Just press buttons on cooldown and watch different flavoured explosions.

What an absolute joke.

It is, and it somehow manages to be better than red mage anyway. Red Mage is such an exercise in frustration. Your attacks are impotent. Your dualcast rez is basically useless (I'm sorry, if you have to rez that often, you're going to hit an enrage wall in meaningful content). Hell, your mobility options when the AOE gets crazy is your frigging melee combo...and even with the buff, it felt more like a "fix" than a buff. The damage of the first hit is still impotent and the second isn't much better. Your burst CDs don't even frigging line up with each other (nor do they even buff your OGCDs? What the ever lucking frick?).

I've thought of rolling to SMN just to feel useful, but the rotation puts me to sleep.

Also BLM should 100% do more damage than melee. Especially in this massive melee hitbox, aoes everywhere meta. I don't MIND the AoE void zone dance, but it's 10 times easier as a melee--or anything honestly--than BLM. It already has the lowest damage floor as a DPS...realistically that should give you the highest ceiling.