Genuine Question about Job Homogeneity

[DiaDeem]

Though I'll probably regret making the thread, this has been sitting in my mind for a while, so I wanna ask genuinely about it. No funny screenshots or anything this time.

I keep hearing people calling the jobs "too homogeneous" or that they're all "the same" and as much as I try... I just don't see it, at least not in the way people talk about it.

Every xpac, I like to max out all my jobs, and it has led me to a few discoveries overtime, so for instance:

- I main SCH, but I absolutely hate SGE.
- I adore NIN, but I absolutely hate MNK.
- I can't stand DRK, and though I like PLD, GNB is my favorite of the tanks.
- I love playing RDM, but I can't BLM very well. SMN is just easy.
- AST is much more complex and varied than the easy WHM. I like both well enough in their own right.
- SAM, WAR and DRG have just never appealed to me.
- DNC I like just fine, but BRD I actually like to hop on here and there.

Every job, at the end of the day is doing one of three things: Damage, Healing or Sustain, but the way they go about it, the actual moment-to-moment flow just feels (for the most part) very different to me.

That said, and this is important: Over-simplifying jobs I do understand. Removing Viper's debuff, the whole Kaiten thing, the way BLM handles mana regen through Ice stance, removing Diurnal/Nocturnal Stances from AST, removing the DoT Job (old SMN), Bane/Miasma/Aero III gone for Healers, etc.

That issue I do understand. But jobs all "feeling the same"? I genuinely can't wrap my head around that one.

Hoping this doesn't devolve into the mess Forum threads usually become. I'm legit trying to understand the argument.