Red Mage core spells follow the exact same pattern and yet it's a popular job.

Also I never liked that "democratic" argument of authority where the majority always decides, and the (supposed) minorities be damned. Fact of the matter actually, HW MCH was played quite a bit even though it was even more of a difficult mess to make sense of than SB MCH (which was more finicky, but way, way easier rotationally).