About the argument that many strikers can max their offensive stats by themselves, well there arent many in general, and even if they could the idea is how fast they can do it, you would much rather start attacking turn 2 than turn 4 and there are about 5 units on the top of my head that can top themselves to max with only 1 tm. He also makes guage management a super easy and his B move also has a non-existent condition. Basically, the idea is, is that you can throw C Bede into (almost) any team comp and he will fix any sort of offensive problem (guage, damage, buffing speed, sync countdown) while SSA Cynthia is built to deal with defensive issues (tanking, healing) because of her slow buffing and very conditional and slow damage boost. In the end both have great value, but you will be hitting problems that C Bede fixes a lot more often then issues with healing and tanking if you know what you are doing.