With how many dps checks there are in the new Ultimate and how tight they are and how a single death/damage down=a wipe is, it's good our damage is where it's at.

For the newest alliance raid, you need to look at the ilevel required to run it, 565. We're still at the point in the cycle where people that are BiS or are close to BiS are still running it to gear alt jobs/finish getting BiS. Also a lot of people going in there even if they aren't BiS, are probably rolling up with a weapon from the new EX, which is 595. Also even casual players will likely have the crafted set which is 580. I don't think the bosses melting has much to do with our job potencies, and it has everything to do with people having an ilevel far above the minimum. It's going to take muuuuuuch longer when geared people aren't doing it anymore. I remember in Shb you could tear through the Nier raids pretty quickly until they stopped being relevant. I was in quite a few super long Copied Factory runs at the end of Shb.