I do agree that SMN is it a bit oppressive for RDM and BLM because it is doing both of what they’re capable of however do not misunderstand, RDM is a monster in prog and it’s unfortunate that logs don’t show the truth, it’s in a great spot as far as prog goes because it’s so good that it can allow you to push forward but is balanced enough so that SMN isn’t overshadowed and it monopolizes the prog scene.

SMN is really best as a prog late game sweep and it’s up to you what want to use after that. My problem is that the community believes that once they’re done progging RDM is useless because they need to start killing the boss faster or they need to hit higher numbers on fflogs where RDM ability to rez doesn’t increase your percentiles. It’s alot easier to look at logs and say “Smn cleared uwu/ucob just as if not more than RDM so it must be better for prog too” than it is to find out if said groups used a RDM prior to the kill.