Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
It has gone from being a masterpiece that literally was the sole reason I continued playing FFXIV to a hideous insult to the Scholar we started with that has somehow remained at the top of the healer food chain despite being gutted over and over and over. I really believe the designers hate scholar more than any other job.
If old scholar was the only thing keeping you in the game, what is keeping you on? (Not trying to tell you to leave, just curious.)

The devs don't "hate" any job, it's just that SCH/SMN were some of the farthest designs from the New Way Of Things - homogenized and simple. And the pet never worked well with the tech, so it had to be neutered.