My question: Are there any plans to make Bard more support than DD?

Reasons behind the question: As it stands, many players including myself consider bard to play more of a DD type class. In the description for a bard, I was under the understanding that I would be spending my time singing and buffing my party with the added benefit of a bow to defend myself and assist when I could between singing shifts and Crowd Control with my arrows/songs. Similar to how it was in XI (but a little less extreme) As it stands I spend 99% of my time fighting with only a small amount of my time going to activating a song from the...3 total I have to choose from to buff as needed and then jump back to fighting. In XI it was the exact opposite, I spent 99% of my time buffing. I was really looking forward to support jobs and would like to see it more fully developed. I enjoy the fighting aspect but maybe a fellow bow user under the moniker of "ranger" should be introduced for this?