Like it was already said for some other classes, especially white mage, seems like people need to calm down.

I am gonna wait to be 70 to judge the machinist changes. Yes there is less ogcds right now, but the ones removed are mostly buff damages that looked all the same, that was a bit boring. From what i see now looks like we can expect a less static gameplay, more group utilitys, a heat system to care about instead of falling asleep hearing too much bzzzz bzzzzz gunmages sounds, all that with some possible variations like blowing up turrets and overheating your weapon at the end of a boss life. It doesn't look that bad to me.