Why is everyone anxious about a PLD Rework?

[ForsakenRoe]

and the only reason it comes up in discussions is when people want to use the term to leverage more rDPS for their preferred job.

Big true, Big real. I've never heard someone say 'oh isnt it great we had Warden's Paean there' or 'Hey that Nature's Minne is really doing work eh', but you always hear about Battle Voice and Radiant Coda, and the effect they're having on people's numbers. 'Utility' is a complete farce, and we shouldn't use the term, because what people mean is 'raid DPS increasing buff'. Actual utility doesn't matter, because the devs don't design around the existence of the utilities, rather, they design around the non-existence, so that every comp can (mechanically) complete any content. It's why we don't see stuff as prominent as Alphascape's Cover Cheese being possible now, or Expedient being a 'you really really need this'.

Contrast this to a 'certain other game', where there's movement speed increases, damage redirects, raidwide damage mit effects (even on dps specs), threat redirection skills, incidental off-healing caused by doing your rotation, on top of damage increasing raidbuffs like 'ok you have this class, so all your magic damage is increased by 5%', and you realize that actually, no, FFXIV's 'utility' is definitely not 'utility'. Chain, Litany, Mug, BattleVoice, TechStep, are not 'utilities', they're damage. Call it what it is.