It all began when 1.0 failed and 2.0 took over. They wanted to bring the classical jobs back which was amazing and pretty straightforward: marauder to war, conjurer to whm, gladiator to pld, archer to ranger etc. Wait what.. Archer to brd!?!? People who understand FF's classical jobs, understand brd was forced on archer.

They had to have a job which could mildly support the party (mp/tp/foe's). There was no room for true support. I have no idea why they did not choose healers to have these abilities (different name, different animation bla bla, same result). It's not like you'd do any kind of content without a healer. The moment you would not need one, you most likely would not need its support.

Archer should have been a true DPS: Ranger.