So you're telling me..

[Acece]

I´m still convinced SAM has been (and probably is) one of the easiest classes to optimize. I don´t argue about the last 10 DPS like some 100% parser would do, i argue about the kit, the possibilities it offers with having "no strict rotation" in some way and how easy and accessible it is. Other classes have strict rotations and one missclick can fck up everything. You do even need to delay stuff or in kind of old MNK you had to care for a bunch of positionals.
On the other hand SAM has offered tons of DPS for "worse players", just because the kit has everything you want on a melee and braindead burst on top. That SAM had overall so much more DPS "for free" wasn´t justified in any way. Same with BLM... either they should be even to their counterpartes or have max. 3% more DPS caused by the missing utility. But not that amount it was in Shb.

Each there own, I personally think decision making makes a dps hard to optimize rather then rng or relying on other players. I also think trying to play sam correctly in shb as in lining yourself within raid buffs is way harder then any of the other jobs. That's why I think balancing around difficulty is dumb because for a lot of other people sam is the hardest to optimize (me) and for others its ninja, blm, or monk.