Growing tired of this Stigma

[Joe777]

So nobody is saying the real reason now? Guess I'll have to do it.

In a public setting most Samurai mains are a weeb stick wielding hindrance. Sure SAM CAN deal insane amounts of damage but how many actual SAM players can tap into it? Not many, and those that can are picked up by statics and don't need to go into PF. Which leaves us with the wannabe DPS player that thinks he's hot (cuz SAM) and will die over and over and over to optimize uptime while being caught up by a WAR or PLD that know what they're doing. SAM just attracted this type of bad player and the whole class suffers for it.

If you talk about utility out of a group that wants to get Savage down, you are a fool. Most PF players forget their utility even exists, let alone know when to use it and others, when to expect it to cash in on it. I seen NIN use TA when nobody had burst, RDM wasting Embolden and other atrocities. Sadly those aren't an exception but the norm. The only thing that happens somewhat reliably, is the tank getting Shadewalker on pull. Rest of the fight, you never see it.

tl;dr : Average players are bad and makes a class hard to perform on look bad.

That's not a real reason, let alone the real reason because that can apply to any job, even the ones the meta find mandatory.