Why is everyone anxious about a PLD Rework?

[Shurrikhan]

it's fine if the simple jobs deal 1 less dps than the complicated jobs

No, unless they're all doing so little that 1 less DPS could somehow offset the massively reduced reliability of the harder and more situationally-constrained job. Until they are both competitive choices for a majority of reasonably skilled but imperfect players, parity on paper / for the highest 1% of players simply means imbalance for everyone else, including even at levels over which one would normally be learning the harder job (but would then be largely barred from doing so due to more easier / reliable jobs producing, until perfect play, greater output than the harder ones).

We should balance risk to reward for those ambitious enough to learn harder jobs, if their vibe and challenge click with them. That means doesn't simply bribing anyone and everyone to learn them through overcompensating those risks (truly perfect play across any composition should be at least barely able to clear Ultimate, etc.), but it does mean providing enough to offset those added risks and allow the vast majority of players who would even consider the harder jobs to do so competitively, rather just the top 1% of players.

Edit: All this refers to rDPS, not nDPS. Please do not conflate them.