Why do the devs hate MCH so much?

[Shurrikhan]

Their difference was in the stance tho, paladin had build in mitigation. War had more health and increased healing.

If we're going as far back as to when any had stances (Stormblood and earlier)... they also had significantly more differences than just their stances.

I'd still have said they could have used yet more differences, largely just by not screwing over their unique tools (see the self-cleanse that could barely cleanse anything, gauge costs tied to Cover... to balance out a fixed mitigation percentage attached to it instead of just using the higher %mitigation of coverer and covered, etc...), but that's a wee bit too tangential.