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I said the same thing in the long thread about bardic performance and masterpieces - no masterpiece even comes close to taking bard from a tier three class to a tier 2 class in terms of either power or versatility whether they are or aren't treated as bardic performances. The only one that even comes close is arrowsongs lament, and thats only if they aren't treated as bardic performances.
That being the case - I'm going to rule with the side that helps level the nearly-vertical class playing field and say that they aren't bardic performances for the purposes of ending other bardic performances. Let all the classes experience even some semblance of the kind of power that wizards and clerics and druids get to have all the time without even having to think about their builds. It makes the game more fun.

Basically, all that I have gotten from this 901 comments long string is that Paizo doesn't care about bards. I don't know how any individual could view being able to use a bardic masterpiece that takes a few full round actions to use while simultaneously maintaining something like inspire courage could possibly be broken.

It isn't playing a wizard, a cleric, or a druid - none of the bardic performances grant anything like the power or versatility provided by the things those classes get.

Just because they seem strong or more versatile compared to some of the bards other class features and abilities doesn't mean that they actually are strong or particularly versatile in the grand scheme of things.

I understand that I am going to get a lot of disagreement about this - but if officially published material seems to make tier 2 and tier 3 classes closer to tier 1 classes, I'm going to allow my players to use it in a way that makes sense and seems fair. I'm not going to wall it away behind some arbitrary nonsense that prevents it from ever being considered useful to any character.