Essentially, did the changes improve Samurai? NO

Beyond merely Kaiten, from Tenka Goken nerf to Auto crits, FFXIV Essentially as a whole became worse to me. No matter what PvE content SE now creates from new Savage tier to Aglaia to new Dungeons, it's all diminished enjoyment regardless of how essentially or in our case non-essential any changes were that factually fixed nothing while it being completely unaddressed on top of it.

Rather Samurai suffers more or not to another Job is irrelevant. It's not a flaccid measuring contest and it shouldn't be treated as such. Anyone should just regard the negative Samurai changes as adding to the already long list of removed gameplay features of " fill in blank " gameplay of x y z job in the past. That is Essentially it.