I can understand people ragging on the regular ruin 1 and 2 which are boring, but that's petty just like regular fires are boring, but Ruin III/IV are visually stunning both graphically and animation-wise.

From a spell standpoint, I don't think Smns can really complain. Yeah blm uses lots of explosions, but that's literally all they do, it's the same spell casting animation the same raising hands to the air for the big ones, never changes. SMN literally floats into the air as if being dragged, and then launches again in the air as he uses deathflare which is arguably if not the most satisfying ability to use as a caster. It's also literally the biggest spell of all the casters, you can see the dang thing all the way in the heavens lol. The only other spell with an animation that lifts the caster off the ground is holy. Then on top of that you get the most graphically impressive and biggest resource hogging spell in the game; Bahamut.

So SMNs can't complain about not being sexy.