Low level Healing is Boring

[Donjo]

No one talks about solo capability because it isn't important to note. It's a given for most modern MMOs that all combat classes are provided the ability to complete solo objectives.

The bottom line is that FFXIV is not an extremely fast-paced game where healers constantly play whack-a-mole with the entire party's HP bars. Supporting DPS is expected when appropriate, and healers who refuse to DPS on principle are only playing part of their class.

Solo capability is important to note. Solo capability is the reason healers are capable of doing DPS in the first place. You're using something given to healers to do solo content in non-solo content.

The point I was trying to make is that the statement of "if healers weren't meant to DPS in party content, they wouldn't have offensive spells" is false because the reason it exists is for solo content. At no point did I say healers shouldn't DPS in dungeons. As I said before, you're lucky that SE doesn't turn off damage skills in dungeons for some kind of reason like "healers should only heal". Be happy that they let us choose the way we want to play.

And I say choose, because that dungeon will get completed whether the healer tosses out DPS or not. It's never necessary for a healer to do DPS in a dungeon, so you shouldn't heckle people who don't. A healer's job is to heal. Consider DPS to just be a bonus.

make them not work in dungeons?
like how cleric stance doesnt work in pvp?
clearly its intended.

The PvP nerf to Cleric Stance happened because SE determined that healer DPS was simply too powerful in this context. If they ever decide that healer DPS is too powerful in PvE, then they'll probably happily do the same thing. I'd argue that they've already made an attempt to nerf healer DPS in relation to the Final Coil by barely increasing the Accuracy given to healer gear.