I respectfully disagree, I'm very fond of my self-target Bar spells, and WHM already makes good use of the AoE versions
This is why we can't have nice things.

Don't you realize that if they replaced our self-target barspells with AoE ones it would open up like 16 slots for cool spells like Sabre/Brave/Faith/Plague/Blink II/Haste II/whathaveyou but it's totally fine if you'd rather have a crappier version of a spell that only WHM gets which only benefits you and nobody else and is basically worthless in a group situation.