The issue with path B is for other jobs it’s kind of bleh except for hybrid WS.
Define "other jobs" because I can see it pretty *** good / BiS for quite a lot of jobs!
That, and you have the additional aspect of defense during WS, which is quite interesting these days.
DEX based WS suffer more because this set has low DEX, some of the other stats are okaysh though.
Aside from people who've been blessed by >8% WSD and good stats with DM augs, a lot of jobs can make good use of Path B.
And that's without even taking into account the inventory saving aspect, which for some of us who have over 10 jobs geared up, is quite the issue let me say.
In the end I don't want to promote Path B over A, but I just wanted to emphasize that you might be disregarding B a bit too fast.