Again, Cid, you speak of HNM endgame a if it is the entirety of FFXI. You really should be on my ignore list by now but somehow I seem to have masochistic tenancies to listen to you.
Red Mage does NOT need burst healing to be considered a "Viable Healer", and if you need a burst healer, you need someone besides Red Mage to do it.
As far as general healing purposes, situations in which your players' HP don't go from full to near empty from 1 move. RDM just needs a more potent healing over time to offset Cure IV spam. My take is that Regen 4 and better damage prevention spells is suited better for this instance.
You really need to get your head out of the boxed-in mentality you've sunk yourself into. Red Mage should be more about damage prevention than HP restoration. Cure V is not the answer to RDM's woes in being a support, and it most certainly does not need to be another 'main' healer.
And completely ignoring the White Mage argument; there are 4 other jobs in the game with Cure V capacity or higher, on top of EVERY job capable of at the very least subbing cure 4. You don't need more, nor does RDM need Cure V to get by. That's a bad cop-out to fix what the job REALLY needs, which is some TP attack mitigation.

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