Learning blue mage though quests just so it can fit in this homogenized role that the other basic, boring rotation jobs have?

Blue is made to be gimmicky , random, use every spell it knows and be unbalanced. If blue mage was shoehorn into a regular job, it wouldn't be a blue mage but a boring generic caster

Also its odd that red mages in other ff games get cure really early but ffxiv gets cure very late in game

Red mage is fun but pressing the same boring rotation over and over again isn't

But i guess thats why ffxiv is a theme park mmo