Good, yes. Pro? Not exactly.
The suggestion was not given to anyone who wants to make a guard, but to those who want to make a pro guard.

That aside, it is indeed ridiculous one would need those weapons to begin with. I can only wholeheartedly agree.

Having said that, I strongly disagree on the whole "debuff" problem. Debuffing has been a skill in the game since the start and every class who ever needed buffs of any kind is vulnerable to that skill. It's annoying, yes - but it has never stopped any actual "pro" player. Much unlike the dekan class, who was once unable to re-cast evolve after having it debuffed (sepa was supposed to be a counter for that, but lol).

People are too used to pressing one or two buttons now that they think any class needing more than those two buttons is a failure.