Quote Originally Posted by Shalan View Post
I don't remember where I saw/heard it, but I feel like I recall the devs saying they wanted to remove a lot of the utility abilities from the game as they felt like it made people feel like certain classes were required. I.E. Utility always leads to meta, which they don't/didn't want to see. Despite the fact that it would just shift the meta from who supplies utility to who deals the most damage.

If they did make that statement I don't think we're going to see a return of utility abilities unless the design philosophy changes.
That was said during the job actions video for shadowbringers. Yoshi said he wanted to kill the meta because some jobs were left out of savage and he wanted every job to be viable so that’s why they stripped bard, Astro and scholar of their utility because they were meta for years. I don’t agree with it but it is what it is. I hope they learned their lesson. All this expansion there have been complaints about sch, Astro and bard. We will see if endwalker fixes what shadowbringers destroyed