That face when Red Mage wasn't even used as a prog mage in Ultimate. World first clear was SMN+BLM. It's also worth noting that the opportunity cost of verraise (and yes, vercure) is compared to Resurrection. Most if not all Red Mages who have cleared TEA are career Red Mages, my own group's Red Mage included, and yes verraise is more or less useless throughout the fight (although we had good results with raising pre-wormhole, for fairness' sake, just to practice the mechanic itself). Vercure is laughably weak, it heals for less than SCH's physick and I can count on one fist the number of times a physick was the difference between wiping or not. At least Summoner's healing support is passive, meaning it doesn't pay anything to be a regen on the party where RDM has to sac a large amount of potency for such a weak heal.

Is it supposed to be the prog mage? If so, why isn't it objectively the best (ie, loses the least for raising, has the best healing support, etc) at prog? Why does Summoner dance all over it? If you're gonna hoist a job up as a progression mage, then make it the best darned prog mage one could possibly get. Otherwise it should be in line with its peers; not over, but not as far under as it is either.