Please stop with the "no duplicates" and pigeon-holing our DPS into tiny windows

[alimdia]

This is getting to be a really disturbing trend that I think the developers don't really see, because they're so far buried in the minutiae of balancing jobs and creating new content

Ohoho, but that's where you are wrong, this is raid finder's requirement for savage raids:



Not only do they see it, they enforce it pretty hard in their own match making system (while not used in NA/EU it is very popular in JP). Not only that but when they say party composition doesn't matter they are clearly not talking about duplicate jobs, because the LB penalty is something they 100% intentionally added to the game to discourage such compositions.

So you got it backwards, whenever you try to stack two of the same jobs you're the one playing against what devs intended, and your LB gets penalized as result.