Stop suffering from class envy! We are bards, be proud of who
we are. If you feel that the bard is in some way weaker than
the other classes, lets come up with the unique, "only a bard.."
solution.

We don't bind. We don't gate. We don't disarm. We play songs.

How about instruments that double as weapons, etc. Drums that
when played look like different instruments. The bard is the class
that could most have a unique solution.

Play a bard because its different, not because it is just another
clone of every other class.