So I played Bowmage back in the day.

Stormblood Bard was basically the peak of the job, and everything since then has been more and more stuff haphazardly piled on top. Bard IMO has too much in the way of plate-spinning, too many resources to manage, too many cooldowns to track, and it often shows in the bursts being cluttered and hectic, but not in the fun way like with Ninja.

IMO, Bard needs a ground-up rework, not to 'lobotomise' the job, but to make the job flow better. Busy isn't bad, Dancer bursts are why I play the job after all, but hectic is an issue Bard has had for almost 3 expansions at this point.