if I had a dollar for every idiot SAM I healed at meripo fulltiming the thing, I would have been able to fund my monthly subscription ever since.
considering the best thing to tp in on sam at the time was hauby which gave -agi -evasion, they did you a favor by getting hit less!
by riding Hasso instead of Seigan/Third Eye, or using neither and coming /NIN? no, these were morons through and through, and they were a dime a dozen. it was bad enough I had to get my merits for Monk on Red Mage because it was SAM onry for merits. we're talking people who blew all their gil on a Hagun, had crap in every other slot, fed the birds more sushi than an all you can eat buffet, and thought they were hot stuff because they knew how to select Tachi:Gekko from the menu. they were carried through leveling to 75, and they were carried on the backs of others for merits.
people like to pretend that it didn't happen back before Abyssea leaching became a thing (and I am sure plenty blocked the existence of Astral Burn parties from their memories to coincide with that) and that everyone knew how to play their jobs, but when you leveled Red Mage, and would receive tells moments after logging in to join a party, you saw plenty.