I feel this was their intention from the start; as what would have been SAM's more direct competition, MNK and DRG, single target DPS specialists...both respectively seem to be slowly being taken down a somewhat different direction as of SB, leaving SAM to be the dedicated single target specialist.

Honestly, it doesn't bug me as much as some other things. SAM should be amongst the highest DPS with how its kit is structured. I think the greater problems lie in balancing the other DPS jobs to be more on par in generating DPS sensible to their jobs' respective focus. I won't lie that SAM could maybe use a very slight trim or two with a few things, but otherwise this seems to be the plan they're structuring around.