I don't think a WAR damage buff was out of the question, I just think they went too far with it. The questionable buff to me was GNB, which was already outperforming DRK in the high end. The big difference that people didn't notice is that fight design hurts GNB way more than DRK, and DRK gains so much from downtime, while GNB is hurt by it. As a result P8S and TOP ended up being DRK fights. (also the suicide strat)

In most sandbag constant uptime content, GNB was out damaging DRK. So they basically just buffed the strongest tank in the game. Its pretty confusing.

In terms of PLD and WAR, it seem to me that PLD is being taxed for its utility, but WAR isn't. So I don't really think they have any solid plan for balancing here.