When people say this job is a mini game, it's because it's less in depth then lord of vermilion and chocobo racing. And just like those minigames they're very self contained and players want to be able to play with their friends in an mmo. And like chocobo racing or l.o.v. after you finish the mist of challenges you're done with the job. You can stand around mor dhona asking your friends to take time away from enjoying new expansion pack content to maybe hop into a level 50 dungeon from 4 years ago with you while you tell them to wait a few years and you'll join them!

If WoW made a sought after job, and capped them at 60, then they would get similar feed back.

Blue mage has no Job gauge. No rotation that we see. Just spam whatever spells you got. (As in find the best one and only use that one).

Just give us a quest at 50, 60, 70, and 80 that is only able to be taken if we have all spells up to whatever and allow that to unlock roulettes so blue mages aren't queuing for dungeons unless they have their spells.

There are so many choices, and they just chose the worst ones.