What’s the point when BLM’s newfound success is PCT and SMN’s loss?

[Valence]

There are over twenty jobs in the game and counting. There should be a mix of different complexities and playstyles for everyone to choose from, every job doesn't need to appeal to everyone. Ryu is a very popular character throughout the Street Fighter series because he's generally pretty straightforward and easy to pick up and play, but would Street Fighter be a better game if every character was Ryu? Of course not. Some people like simple characters and some like technical characters and everything in between, so there's a mix of all of that in the roster. FFXIV shouldn't be any different.

That would require SE to stop balancing jobs around difficulty and complexity (something they have said to be doing regularly in spite of recanting in early SB, only to double down on it later), and the community to accept that a job they see as "braindead" to be able to compete with a complicated one.