I feel like Red Mages get the low end of the stick after progression ends. Now don't get me wrong, Red Mage is a great job to progress on due to the spam raises, but once progression ends and you have everything on farm, is there really any point to taking a red mage?

Spam raising is an utility that is only useful for so long. After this utility is not needed anymore, summoner is better in literally every aspect. Summoner can contribute a lot more DPS wise, and can do about the same as RDM utility wise.

Embolden doesn't make up for the low dps either. The diminishing effect makes it hard to make proper use of embolden as a raidbuff, and it doesn't help that it only affects physical DPS of the other party members.

I love to play red mage, but it makes me sad to ditch it after progression just because every other job contributes way more to the party. I'm not asking for red mages to do as much damage as summoners, but I think the spam raising utility is overvalued, and RDM is taking a big hit on all other fronts just for this.