Deep Discussion about - bard - is awful

[wereotter]

your rotation never evolves its always the same costly dotting up things yet you have no bane like skill that spreads your dots.

Bane is going away in a few weeks, so seems like they're addressing this half of your complaint by simply removing the ability entirely.

Additionally it's important to remember even when jobs are similar, usually one has some advantage over the other. I remember it wasn't that long ago that monk and bard both were highly reliant on critical hits to proc their extra skills, but while bard had a 100% proc rate, monk only had a 50% proc rate.