Bard should have been something like this...

[kyuven]

I don't think swapping out 5 job skills and renaming the job counts as drastic, and as I said, this should be done in 3.0 they don't have to change the old stuff that way, its useless by then anyway and it gives people who played then a "hey look" gear set to show of to people who join in after expac

when they're integral to the playing style, yes, yes it's drastic. At that point you may as well keep bards the way they are and just make a new job.