"The Discourse is Dumb and Endwalker is FINE" - Wesk Alber

[Turtledeluxe]

People really did not take WAR, PLD, MNK, MCH, SAM, WHM and DRK at different parts of this game's life. To the point where people did so without knowing why a group would not want to even in content where excluding them wouldn't have mattered. Yet look at people in PF 6 weeks after a savage tier comes oit and the fact they'd have dumb restrictions on them like the stupid high ilvs. That would prevent people who knew what they were doing to join just cause they were joining on a job that wasn't as geared as their main. Look at the whole skip Soar meme. People wanted to skip it because it was too hard even though later in the fight you still had to do a Soar. There would be people who wouldn't look at a MCH's numbers and just kick em from a PF group cause lol MCH ping is bad and there were a lot of bad MCH. Or if they did take a great MCH and a wipe happened they'd kick em then assuming it had to be the person playing the "crap" job.

Yes and those are isolated and extreme cases that literally don't neccesitate the vast oversimplification and homogenization that has occurred.

And per your notes about MCH, that's players. That isn't FFXiV-- it's players. Devs are in a perpetual cycle of homogenizing and simplifying when players are always going to make assumptions and create metas. It is a battle they will never win and they should stop now, reverse direction. Accept that not every job will be meta or loved by everyone and stick to their own creative vision.