Combat system is beyond saving.

[Aravell]

I love how jobs that were not meta, but were absolutely viable and that were still used in harder content always gets described as being "completely useless" by accounts with join dates years after 2015-2017.

I don't really think forum join dates mean very much since it's tied to when you register for the forums, not when you started the game.

That said, the "rose-tinted glasses this, rose-tinted glasses that" argument is annoying. Have you people who use that argument ever considered that you have on the opposite of rose-tinted glasses? You hated HW so much that you amplified the flaws in your mind with your biases, so "NIN/DRG/BRD/MCH were great because of their synergy" filtered through your negative biases becomes "NIN/DRG/BRD/MCH was absolute meta and every other job was worthless and nobody wanted them".