Why do Raid Buffs even exist?

[Valence]

How would that solve the core issue? As long as you have buffing jobs to play with, everybody else will want to align their bursts with their buff windows/timers (unless their job makes it impractical/impossible). Is the suggestion to actually turn every non raid buffing job into some kind of BLM, or old BRD, floating completely independently of buff windows?

I actually have no strong opinion around this, except that they already removed whole parts of the pve gameplay when they released shb, like MP/party resource support, enmity, etc... I feel that if anything the game needs more varied things to play with, not less where everybody is just focused on damage in their own corner, what you're suggesting is that we also remove most of the teamplay and raid buff coordination as well. Not that it's exceptionally hard or complex in EW since everything is on the 2min timer now, but still...