For the bowmen: Has the bandwagon affected you?

I never really asked this one, not that I recall, though I have shoved my views in others' faces... so here's the question.

With the release of 4th job, and skills like Sharp Eyes, Hurricane, and Snipe, has the bandwagon of players flocking from other classes affected you in any way, shape or form? Are you losing training spots to them? Are you finding yourself lacking motivation recently? Have you noticed others treating you differently for being a bowman?

Personally, I have no problem with people playing what they want to play, but the bowman bandwagon sickened me to the point where I almost quit my hunter. I've gained a whopping 4 levels (more like 1 from training, two from being begged to CPQ, and one because my girlfriend was playing my hunter) since 4th job came out because quite frankly, I can't stand it. I remember when people talked to me just because I was a hunter. I remember back when people thought bowmen were nice. But now....

I look around, and what do I see? Bowmen everywhere, with sauna robes and brown work gloves and snowshoes and brown bamboo hats, promptly being replaced by Zhelms at level 50 exactly. I see pricks tarnishing the bowman name with KSing a-la-sin-style, people cursing me out because "You're a nobody until you can be my SE mule. And quite frankly... it's driven me to the point I've wanted to quit my beloved hunter entirely.

Has it affected anyone else this negatively? People tell me to stop whining and get over it, but is it so hard to have people not peach at me for not having SE at level 47? I mean seriously.....

With Sharp Eyes, bowmen of all sorts now have a major role to play in boss parties. With SoA BMs can now do nearly as much damage as sins even without SE. For the marksmen, pierce isn't exactly useful at bosses, but SE still ensures us a party slot in most cases, and our training and instead of getting an attack that replaces everything, we get two attacks to add to our arsenal of awesomeness.

Anyway, even the xbowmen get bandwagoned from time to time, and as I'm sure was mentinoed already, prices for both bows and crossbows are pretty rediculous. Other people playing archers "because they're good in 4th job" doesn't bother me, and most of those people will quit anyway, like other bandwagoners. I've never had anyone say anything about SE to me, and I defientely won't be anyone's SE slave anywhere. SE might be my most useful quality, but the TT mules would be lost without me, so I'm hardly a slave.

As it becomes easier to be rich and cheaper to buy zhelms, naturally a lot more people will get themselves helmed. I was one of those 'bathrobe bamboo to zhelm at around 50' people and just because I did a lot of damage doesn't mean I was a bad person for it, does it? Oh and while this latest sniper was made early this summer, my last one is about two years old, so he was made well before 4th job was even being talked about.