It is weird that Machinist is stuck in a role designed specifically for ‘providing support for companions’ then giving it virtually no ways to provide support for companions lol.

At the same time though they’d probably give some ‘oh but spaghetti code’ reason as to why it’s impossible to change a job’s role designation. It would definitely make more sense in any other dps sub-role than phys ranged with how they balance it currently though.

Personally I don’t think Machinist having some actual support would be extreme homogenisation either; the game has literally no ‘debuff’ oriented class anyway, so why not make that Machinist? Then it can still be more offense oriented than the more defensive Bard, or Dancer which provides extra healing (outside of their standard damage+% raid buffs )