Scholar is still the only class in the entire game with a single AOE dps skill

[Nizzi]

As for bringing new offensive buttons Miasma is probably the most cost effective way for Square to give Scholar "new" toys without investing too much into R&D. It's just a tiny little bit baffling to me that SMN gets this entire overhaul to simplify the job and get rid of DoT upkeep while scholar gets nothing at all (and I totally blame the Under the hood improvements on them releasing SGE and cleaning up their barrier healer code). Part of me feels like the only reason Scholar was so fun to play in 2.x~4.x is because it was tied to SMN and every time they wanted Arcanist related changes for SMN they were forced to improve SCH as well but that bond was severed and now they can ignore SCH to their heart's content.

I don't even particularly care about Miasma or DoTs specifically despite liking them, I just think suggesting simple changes that won't cost a lot of developer time is an easier path to getting positive changes. I was really hoping with SMN losing it's DoTs in EW that we would get Miasma back, it's not a lot of work for them compared to developing entirely new stuff. No new icons/animations or anything, all they need is to tweak the balance and add it back. They could've even reused Miasma III as an "upgrade" to it for an EW trait and I would've been very happy despite that being an old animation for Summoner. I think you're definitely right about SCH now, now that it's severed from ACN they can just ignore it, that's the only way I can make sense of Ruin II and ED being the same icon, animation and name as ACN/SMN skills despite working completely differently for SCH, especially after SMN got reworked. Why didn't they take the time to at least give new icons/names to SCH's versions of these skills? They're already completely separate from ACN/SMN's versions. Why make Ruin II a button SCH never wants to use and ED more of a DPS gain in EW despite them clearly trying to move away from that twice in ShB?

It's hard to not feel like your entire role is being ignored when there are still so many glaring issues with jobs like Scholar, White Mage or Astrologian, especially when a lot of these are issues they created going into this expac and haven't bothered to address at all like Lilies, which should've been taken care of by now.