I am the poster who made the very rough mock-up of the answers to the SMN request to scale Physick off INT. I want to stree the following points:
  • "Go play a Red Mage" was very obviously a joke. The whole charade of acting like not understanding the point of the request for INT scaling was a way to emphasize that jobs are designed to be different. And the joke was to wrap it up.
  • It was not a strict translation. There are nuisances that are lost with such a simplistic mock-up. And the same goes with the extremely simplified and matter-of-fact summaries posted officially.
  • My take on the responses to SMN requests regarding INT scaling of Physick and pet survivability is that they have made a decision that SMN should not be good at healing, and that they should be required to handle their pet, being a pet job. In the same way that PLDs for a long time were given lower dps becase that's just how it's designed.
Please don't blow it out of proportion. The joke about "go play a red mage" was not a dismissive gesture. It was a joke, and should be taken to mean no more than that.