Phantom Jobs are a step in the right direction but need iteration.

[fulminating]

Man people really have rose-tinted glasses with Eureka and Bozja.
None of the actions were interesting. It was just passives or buffs to do silly damage, which is pretty much what phantom jobs are. There were some niche actions in Eureka that you used to level grind, but that's it.

The silly damage is the carrot, the stick is breakdancing and not hitting the boss or using your dashes as a gauge builder or using your mitigations on raidwides and praying that you don’t snag aggro or that the other 3 healers in your party who instantly activated an essence aren’t also all profane and so on. It’s about how the older iterations interacted with the kit and how insular the phantom subjobs are by comparison.