100 million percent Bard.

Almost no relation or similarities to previous FF Bards, fails at the ‘ffxiv unique barcher’ iteration, fails gameplay-wise (extremely unpopular), it even fails aesthetically because it’s so confused about whether it’s a laser beam archer or a magic musician. Support is primarily full passive, boring, or borderline unnecessary (Paean / Minne / Troubadour).

The devs have literally said that Bard was a mistake before lol, kinda says it all

In my opinion the only way they’ll ever actually resolve this is if they ever separate Bard and Archer. Players numbers pretty clearly show the current iteration is not well-received at all. Except that would require actual effort and admitting they were wrong, so yeah, crappy Barcher that nobody wants to play is here to stay sadly