Inevitable Job Simplifications?

[tearagion]

I agree that you don't need Balance/ other tools to do fairly well, it's mainly for the small details that make the difference between good and optimal that you'll likely be lost without some outside source.
But to be fair, a lot of people say things like "I can keep uptime perfectly well without balance telling me to!" and then you look at their kills of something and notice they're sitting at something like 85% uptime, misaligned buff, missed several uses of cooldowns, have several broken combos and so on. They'll not suddenly do better because they also read on balance that uptime is important, that's not the point here.
The point is that people thinking they're doing well and proudly announcing that they know everything they need to and do well without any outside source (and often tend to subtly put others down who do use these sources) have been found to be a far cry from that more often than not both ingame and on the OF etc.
It has resulted in many people being sceptical when someone says "Nah, fam. I play my class well without any outside source. Lol who needs balance, just use common sense hurrdurr" even though you can definitely do pretty well by just reading tooltips. Not optimally, no, that's a number cruncher thing and you'd have to do more than just glance at a tooltip. But well? Definitely.

I don't think poorly of people who want to game from the shoulders of giants so to speak, but my point was: to claim that it's beyond the average player to do some math in a spreadsheet or infer basic rotational concepts, and that that is a good reason to keep jobs at a MCH-or-lower complexity is asinine.