Quote Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim View Post
So basically they have a really boring ideal of how they want roles to be and anything outside of the pure standard is met with extreme disagreement.

Not gonna lie, I thought World of Warcraft had terrible reasons to neuter jobs over time, but if ffxiv JP is the primary audience the devs base their changes and decisions on then I am genuinely afraid for the future of job design.

It really does not help that the idea of keeping up a social standard and status quo is such a deeprooted thing in their culture - the fact this extends to their wishes and desire for game additions and changes is appalling.
The question isn't if they will remove something but what. They have been doing this 3 expacs in a row. SB was the middle ground where we still had skill expression but it wasn't as punishing and everything after has just been making it worse and worse.
The new SMN shouldn't exist in the game period because it's not a caster and it's completely different job to what it was before.
DT will not make it better but propably worse. The question is how much.