Did the devs lie to us? Either actually make BLU OP, or unlock it

[EaMett]

I'm 100% behind the make us stronger or allow us to at least join DF. Right now BLU is a non-solo class locked out of any party content. 2/2 4/4 strats are dumb, not challenging. It doesn't even qualify as a grind since you just run and wait for someone else to kill stuff for you.

Carnival is entertaining the first time around, challenges might be decent I haven't tried too hard at this point. However it's frustrating that our decent skills are walled behind group content. I don't have a single decent wind attack spell yet which is a handicap in the carnival.

This is going to suffer the same faith as eureka in that once the content is no longer relevant you won't even find parties to join for most of your skills. I don't understand how the designers keep repeating these mistakes? Are they so held up in their personal ties to old school grind mmorpgs that they just MUST impose outdated concepts to a non grind game like ff14 which basically results in content becoming stale from lack of participation once the bulk of players have gone through it?