Balance and difficulty

[Zerathor]

That's true too. But from my bard main perspective, the fact that they give the reason that the more pdps you have the less utility and buff the job should have....then I look at mnk and drg and I'm like that makes no sense.
But it could be that they think bard is easy so they take almost all of our buff and utility away while mnk kept most of theirs and ended up having more of it than Bard.

In bard's case, I think it has more to do with complete unrestrained mobility. Especially now that they also have knockback immunity. Which maybe could be considered difficulty, but I feel raw mobility is more than that when it let's ranged be perfect candidates for bait mechanics and other things while keeping perfect uptime without having to compromise or mix up rotations. Also the utility for damage reduction is superior imo for some fights being that it flat reduces damage taken for the party rather than reduce the bosses damage. That allows mitigation from untargetable sources like p3 titan tumults from big titan, which is pretty nice.