Is anyone surprised at this point?

[Absurdity]

That's because Warrior was the only tank that had a decent design, the other 2 were just crap. And this isn't "balance", this is homogenization.

I can certainly agree that complete homogenization for the sake of balance is terrible design but I'm honestly not seeing how warrior was better designed than paladin in stormblood, paladin was a great support tank with extremely powerful defensives and party utility that could still output decent dps after several nerfs. It can be argued that dark knight had the issue of "too much dark arts" but even that job wasn't terribly designed towards the end, just not to everyone's liking.


What made warrior such an easy pick after the rework was the comparatively simple rotation, so you were less likely to have a tank that underperforms heavily, and the fight design that simply favored warrior's defensive and offensive cooldowns, they weren't as powerful as pld's or drk's but enough to survive and more readily available for certain boss mechanics whereas their burst heavy opener allowed them to quickly build threat on bosses without losing dps due to how enmity worked. They also had the benefit of their increased healing synergizing very well with SCH, a more mandatory job than warrior, but this wasn't something that was added with Stormblood.
The original 4.0 warrior was an absolute mess of juggling 2 different dps cooldowns and performing a perfect rotation to end up with a very specific amount of gauge at exactly the right moment, just to be able to output dps comparable to the other tanks.


And now that most of those benefits that the 4.2 warrior brought have been redesigned or entirely removed (enmity management, synergy with SCH's shields, shorter cooldowns that were back up for specific mechanics) you can see the design for what it actually is, monotonous and ultimately rather boring.