Is it fun?

[Liam_Harper]

I would say the jobs being made so similar now, especially healers, is a result of people trying to force a meta comp in the past for other content. Even now people change jobs every patch almost to try and be the highest DPS ing healer.

Actually, WHM is currently the most popular healer at nearly all levels of play, including Savage, despite having the worst dps. AST, the strongest healer in healing, mobility, versatility and dps is the least popular. In Stormblood however, WHM became the least popular Savage healer. Dancer is also currently the most popular phys ranged but the worst dps in the game and BLM the least popular caster and the best dps in the game.

The community really isn't that meta driven outside of cutting edge World First. Generally when a class becomes unpopular it's because it's complex (which is actually fine, for example BLM is considered perfect) and more often clunky, lacking tools, too rng driven, excessively simple or punishing to play in certain fights. For example with WHM in Stormblood it had no utility, poor mobility, subpar dps and its lilies made no sense while SCH felt great to play, so it's not surprising players preferred it regardless of meta. Nowadays, as bad as WHM may be, it feels straightforward and effective to pick up and play but SCH's a ghosting mess with tons of oGCD's that it's punished to use, so it feels bad.