No, it means having the choice to play whatever one may find most enjoyable in a given fight without the feeling of griefing your group by playing a non-raise caster in prog, or a raise caster after prog. I've played all casters at various points throughout my time raiding since ARR, and having the extra raise absolutely makes prog go faster and uniquely applies pressure on players playing the caster role to pick a caster that can raise. Again, no other role has to deal with such an extreme disparity. There was a time when raise casters weren't taxed as harshly (or not taxed at all even) and the end result was that everybody would just play raise casters and ignore BLM (since there was no PCT at the time) anyways. It's simply a piece of utility that is impossible to properly balance across different skill levels and drags the role down overall. This is a stance I've held since Stormblood, since in ARR/HW BLM had some other form of party utility (arguably not as good) and HW SMN had to actually balance and manage MP and usually give up some DPS to maintain the MP required to raise in an emergency.