Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
If I took a test and failed with a score of 20%, then studied for my next one and scored 80%, should I conclude that there was no point to studying because it didn't get me a perfect 100%? Of course not. A change doesn't have to make something "perfect" to be worthwhile - simply being "immensely better" can fit the bill.
I think “immensely better” is highly questionable. The current balance is in some ways more jank than it used to be.

Both now and in the past, all jobs are viable. But because of how homogenized the jobs are, the jobs that are worse are hard to justify because there’s virtually nothing else they bring to the table that other jobs can’t do. You can still bring them because again, everything is viable like it was in the past as well, but RDM for example has almost no merit compared to SMN who also has a raise, deals more damage, has more mobility, and has been reduced to almost healer level gameplay but without the healing.