Is there an unneeded hostility towards regular classes in this game?

[Huntington]

First you say that arcanist dps is almost as good as summoner dps, then state that for stuff like coil, you won't use arcanist. If the dps difference was as negligible as you state, why wouldn't the "better utility" as an arcanist make it so that u stay as arcanist for ALL fights? I find it hard to take you seriously when your stance is neither here nor there.

So which is it you're trying to say? Arcanist is better dps than smn? Arcanist utility is better than smn? Then why add in the fact that you yourself would change to smn for coil and ex primals?

I've given my reasoning on all of those before :/

1. SMN utility is not anywhere near as good as ACN, the three viable abilities that SMN has right now is Raging Strikes, Quelling Strikes, and Swiftcast. ACN has all of those too, plus Stoneskin, Protect, Foresight, Convalescence, Aero, Blood for Blood, Internal Release, Awareness, and more. There's no one that can deny that if SMN had access to all of those, that it would be god-tier.
2. However, ACN does hit weaker than SMN does, I've never once said that I believe that SMN could be out-matched in a fight by a ACN, though I did a Parse at one time that had SMN one point lower than it, but whatever that's outdated by this point and no longer relevant. I played as ACN because I enjoyed it's versatility more than SMN's. Simple as that, it was more fun to me.
3. I won't take ACN into those fights because it's clear and evident that I need to be putting my best foot forward, of course I could dodge AoEs and still do damage as good as any other time, but other people will be expecting the highest order of stats and gear for those fights, I do not wish to argue with people all day about something if I want to just do a Duty mission and do something else, it's not worth the time. SMN has more damage capability than ACN as of now with the Class and Job split, so to save time, I'll grin and bear it and just play as SMN since it's my best DPS class right now.

Does that explain it?