Why is everyone anxious about a PLD Rework?

[Shurrikhan]

No, neither nDPS or aDPS is appropriate for job balancing

Nor is any single job's rDPS in isolation. Else you end up with things like CD drift or freestyle Samurai being considered "optimal" just because their own rDPS is slightly higher that way (nevermind the greater negative impact on the rest of the party's rDPS).

There is, for instance, up to ~200 rDPS a DRK brings to a party over a PLD that is not accounted for in the DRK's own rDPS. The gap in total (party-wide) rDPS produced by taking a DRK over a PLD is therefore larger than it would first appear. We can compensate PLD for that, but we'd then have to actually expect that people are capable of doing more than just looking at a single, non-comprehensive chart and going "higher, better, done."