MCH: How to fix flamethrower

[jrollins89]

Let's be clear; Flamethrower is an absolutely garbage ability. The fact that it is our Level 70 "capstone ability" is a complete insult.
But Flamethrower is more a symptom of the problem than an anything. Fixing Flamethrower / making MCH AOE slightly better won't suddenly fix the job; but it certainly is telling that this ability has been left in this state for so long.

We can spitball ideas all day (a FLAMETHROWER not generating HEAT? CMON), but it won't matter at all if SE is still stuck in their "there isn't much we can change with MCH / the job is basically complete" views that they sprouted during the Endwalker pre-release tour, despite the the consensus between pretty much all FFXIV regional communities.

EDIT: Sorry for the "doom-posting" but man the handling of MCH has been frustrating.