We cannot achieve balance while DPS jobs have utilities

[Lyth]

People have fun with different things though. Even at its most fun, BLM was still pretty low on the player count. Compared to (imo) the least fun job in the game SMN getting a huge amount of players.

PCT has probably has had an even bigger impact on SMN. In Endwalker, SMN was the most played DPS. Now it's the second least played Magical Ranged job in raid content (fourth from the bottom overall). PCT is pretty much a direct upgrade if you don't need the extra Raise.

I think that's the crux of the utility/dps problem. You need parity on both, ideally independently of each other. Otherwise one job just ends up dominating.