i actually never had people bashing me personally, even when i was playing expert dungeons with minimal ilvl.
i did however have a few tanks acknowledge that AST has some issues with healing and acting more careful/pulling less.

i see once in a while on PF things like "no AST" and stuff, but im trying to ignore it and slowly enjoy getting my esoteric equipment and having hope that square is going to fix all this soon xD *sigh*

i agree with you on that, people are slightly ignorant if they say that AST is completely fine and viable healer that is performing well, because that's quite far from reality.