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

[Ephier]

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in a fight by a ACN, though I did a Parse at one time that had SMN one point lower than it, but whatever that's outdated by this point and no longer relevant.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?

Good sir, you are DPS, why are you concerned with utility?

1.If you are casting stoneskin you are not doing damage and the other DPS are now stressed harder to carry your lack there of. You have two healers for protect mut point. You are not tanking, why do you need foresight? Healers end game can heal you well enough that you do not need convalescence. The DPS buffs such as blood for blood and internal release are nice, but with their nerfs in 2.1, they do not make up for the INT from the job crystal, dmg you are missing from relic +1, and bis relic gear. Yet again you are not tanking, why do you need awareness?

2. Playing ACN by yourself would be fine, when you are with other people you are being a burden, especially in places such as t5. Me personally as a DPS main would be very irritated dealing with someone doing sub optimal damage on purpose just because they like something more.

3. Good mind set change. While it is sad that you cannot use classes, as they do have more versatility, they will never be more powerful than jobs. Consider it like old school MMOs where you have 1st job, 2nd job, etc. The 2nd job will always outclass the first job, even though there were builds that could be used on the first job for niche.