Following theorycrafters will kill your enjoyment of the game and make you worst at it. It doesn't matter if Zani can do the highest dps if those number can only be reached if you do a perfect rotation vs a mob that doesn't move. All theorycrafters do is make bads want to pull for the newest character in the hopes that they will be what lets them clear content.

I didn't start to max clear endgame content until I start to take the time to get better at playing the game. Once you figure out that rotations are just guidelines and that not getting hit by learning attack pattern will also up your dps.

tl;dr: The "meta" isn't real so just get good. Solo Taoqi can beat level 6 Kelpie