Please reconsider 7.0 BLM changes

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I love this mindset.
"Well, since every other class than class A can only have pizza for lunch, now class A is also only allowed to get pizza, even though they preferred chicken nuggets every now and then. We just serve pizza now."
If another job suddenly gets the depth BLM has now, unless I'm really put off by the aesthetics of the class (like NIN or SAM, which I just dislike in general), I'll play it.

People really show how recently they started playing. In HW, one of the jobs with most depth and complexity was SCH. In fact, I still think HW SCH, with Cleric dancing, with the old fairy buffs (the haste, the magic defense boost and all that), with supervirus, with the xclass dots that weren't naturally aligned, with the MP-hungry Miasma II for weaving, with the old Energy Drain VS Lustrate (and I'm not even going into the % Lustrate made to be used in Cleric, since that got removed way faster) was one of the best jobs in XIV history. When all of that got slashed in SB, I moved to BLM and SMN. I progged every Ultimate and Savage fight in ShB on SMN too, I liked the second iteration with the ogcd egi assaults (the instant gcd egi assaults were ok too, tho). Then they annihilated that SMN, and all that was left was BLM.
People just assume players haven't been hoping between jobs as more and more get sacrificed to the altar of "balance", which is achieving nothing at all in terms of gameplay feel or encounter quality.

So yea, I'd change jobs for the 4th time if what you're describing happens.
(My wife had a similar trajectory, starting with DRK in HW, then WAR in SB, then PLD in ShB and now GNB)
Ofc, at this rate, the game will never have any depth of gameplay ever again. SCH, DRK, SMN, WAR, and now BLM- I'm sure there are more examples, but I didn't reach an acceptable level of mastery in those jobs. We, as a playerbase, need to defend the few jobs with depth left, otherwise, in a few years, in a XIV post complete-homogenization, no one will even remember how much this game's gameplay has lost. To this day, I still want any version of HW, SB or ShB SMN and HW SCH back. I'd really love to play those jobs again. But I guess I should just accept they're taking my last toy away, get bored in 2 months with DT and uninstall the game :>