I think it might be easy to write off the jobs when looked at in isolation, but I think it's more competitive if you think of the two as tied together. Compare a pearl diver and angler with a farmer and artisan.
This is the trade off you get before any bonuses:
-3 Consumer Goods
+4 Minerals
+4 Trade
The "before any bonuses" makes a big difference: in practice, lower base upkeep is a lot less valuable than higher base output.
Artisans look kind of mediocre because they consume a whopping 6 minerals while miners only make 4, and sure enough, Artisans are very expensive to run early on, which is why players try to find ways around them. But as the game progresses, you start mining much more efficiently, and factory worlds also give a substantial upkeep discount to Artisans, so now the upkeep isn't so onerous any more, while the output per Artisan is also much better due to bonuses, so in the end you don't even need that many Artisans. By contrast, if you rely on Pearl Divers for CGs, you will always need a lot more of them than you would Artisans, because their base output is so low. That means you're wasting a lot of pops on a weak job, and in the end you'd be better off just making a factory world or two with regular old Artisans.
Now Anglers are significantly stronger than Farmers per job, no ambiguity there. It's just that especially early in the game, you'd rather not be building a whole district for just one good job. Also, Farmers aren't such a great point of comparison because they're another job players generally try to avoid, because food tends to be cheap and abundant anyway for other reasons (such as hydroponics bays) and other resources take a higher priority. So at an empire level, having a strong food job isn't necessarily that big of a deal. (For similar reasons, Masterful Crafters, while a lot better than Anglers, isn't quite as strong as it looks for most builds: unless you really go all in on CG consumption with a Utopian Technocracy or something, you just don't need that many CG-producing specialists in the first place.)
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