Your Opinion on the Current State of Job Identity/Balance in 6.4?

[Absurdity]

Even were the game to turn into the likes of GW2, though, how would simply removing 4 jobs in a tantrum, DPS or otherwise, be healthier for the game than revamping those 4 jobs to better fit that context?

Funny thing about that, GW2 back-pedaled quite a bit on that whole "no trinity" design.

And even more funny things, GW2, the mmo that didn't have any healers initially, has vastly more interesting healer gameplay now than XIV does. I'd play Quickness Heal Herald over any of the XIV healers any day.

Exactly because they're not designed to just mindlessly fill health bars, you're primarily a support. You provide damage reduction, attack speed, cooldown reduction, crit chance, attack power and your weapon skills provide even more support on top of dealing damage.

Personally it's also about how little the combat has changed/evolved for the majority of classes from SHB to EW.

That's the big thing people tend to forget, it wasn't Endwalker that brought us this incredibly boring job design, Endwalker just continued what Shadowbringers had started. Endwalker's biggest sin is simply doubling down on it.