Is this the ideal form of BLU? No, it isn't it. Neither is the current iteration. Also let us not forget that they were willing to bend the concept of RDM to make it fit, and by and large RDM has been well received by the community. DRK isn't it's HP-sacrificing self either, players still use it in a bunch of content. BRD uses a bow, not a harp as it's weapon and you didn't have to go around collecting songs to play, you got them in Job Quests. If the dev team could do it before, why not do it now?