You know, I'm surprised nobody has brought this up yet, but I feel like this all goes back to the unnecessary blm buff from the SCoB era. For those of you who don't remember, a bunch of people who didn't play blm very well declared that it was underpowered, and whined that everyone wanted smn over blm for SCoB content, while the truth was, that people who DID play blm well could go toe to toe with smn in basically any content. As a result, SE caved and gave them a straight damage boost to their single target nukes. And, here we have the results. In truth, I feel like the solution was never doing the blm buff to begin with, and letting the lesser skilled blms get better at their job.