Even not playing the class, I have to agree with OP for the most part. The game is built around the "you can max every class", for better or worse. Why single out Sum/Sch for the stat allocation dispute? Are they testing them for some future variance of another current class? A healer Monk who needs MND instead of DPS STR? Maybe SE doesn't really care for SMN/SCH.

It just seems like a slap in the face to the people that actually do like those classes. If SE designed the two to function in this way, makes me question if they didn't think the situation all the way through before finalizing them. Darn Friday meetings!

Not to go totally off topic (but im going to... XD ) How un-powerful do you feel as SMN in XIV compared to other FF games? FFXI watered them down. FFXIV is holding their head under water...