You said you liked pro-active healing more anyway. Sch seems more up your ally to begin with. Its your personal preference not necessarily one class being better over another. You bring up several points on how SCH is clearly the better class than whm, but when you get down to it - you enjoy pro-active rather than reactive and SCH is a pro-active class.

I really like the idea of scholar, but I personally play it very shittily. It doesn't really click with me like whm does. That doesn't mean that SCH is a bad class, or that whm is a superior class. It just means that I play a whm better so I prefer it, it could also mean im an awful player lol! I think the two classes complement each other very well. at the moment, I feel my sch partner and i both pull our own weight in coil. I dunno how she feels lol, but I am happy with how its turned out so far. I've played with some stellar scholars and some pretty awful ones, so it mostly comes down to the player not the class.