casters: what am I missing

[Sleigh]

Well, it's highly subjective on what's easier/harder. Personally I don't think SMN is very complex at 60 because it plays highly similar to SMN at 50, which I've been playing for two years. BLM is a different beast at 60 ... not terribly difficult at its core, but much more reflexive to the fight at hand, and much less scripted as you have to adapt and change your rotation on the fly, even if you repeat a fight constantly with the same team you'll be playing different depending on RNG. SMN, you usually do the same thing in any particular fight as you repeat it, more or less.

I'd say SMN would be considered easier because, once you have the base down, you deviate a few things per the fight at hand and then you just follow your script. If you have to change things, it's because you learned of a better way to do the fight. BLM is just always flowing according to its own beat depending on what happens and what targets you, and in some fights that's a lot more complex than what SMN has to deal with.

Really, the biggest difference between SMN and BLM on a dummy is just how many buttons you press with SMN, they're both pretty easy to do well with. It's more buttons but not necessarily any harder or more complex, unless you've got butter fingers I guess. In real fights they're night and day from each other.