Clerics on most games are very boring. On D&D, is one of the few games which they are representatives of a deity on the material plane and hence, has a lot of cool stuff. Sadly the balance cult is making then boring too...
Why does a class need to be overpowered to be interesting? A lack of balance leads to classes being unviable, which is likely to suck for players who do not enjoy the flavor of the OP options.
If Clerics were kinda bad, but Bards (or any other class you're not as interested in) did everything everyone does better, would you still hold to this idea that the balance police are trying to make bards boring by calling for it to be in the same ballpark in terms of usefulness as everything else, within its niche?
Balanced classes (and races etc) is something a lot of people call for because we don't want the game to punish people simply for playing something they want rather than what is optimal. If wanting to make more combinations attractive and viable makes me boring, we're very different.
