Might just be a difference in playstyle preference. I primarily blm, but did brd for a short time in ucob and found it much more relaxing. Tried smn out for a while as well, but I greatly disliked the flow of the job. Wasn't so much difficult as it was just unenjoyable to play for me. From a blm perspective a lot of the fights difficulties seemed to be mapping how to move in a fight, but both of those jobs kind of removed that factor entirely and you only had to do your rotation for the most part.

If the op is fully comfortable with both jobs rotationaly though and enjoys both, I believe they find the learning experience easier with the mch. I did see them mention smn though, and if they become comfortable with that they'd get the most meta job in the game that also comfortably shares a similar bis to rdm if you ever wanted variety, or needed more power raising when you venture into pf groups.

Also yeah, I meant physical ranged, I generally call casters just casters.