I am also finding that the DPS check requirements are making fights less fun.

I was just talking to a friend about the way that our tanks in FFXIV are so weak.
In other games if you have a great tank and a great healer then you have excellent survivability and you can still win a fight with lower DPS.

However in FFXIV that means absolutely nothing because the focus of every single fight is DPS. Even though this is the case; there is no automatic reset of cool downs after a fail. So those abilities you so desperately need are not available for another few minutes (including potion cool down) after a wipe.

I'm looking at you Faust! (Alex Extreme)

Forcing a Healer to DPS because it is a requirement of the fight just sounds ridiculous. If you want to DPS as a healer then by all means, go for it. Its a privilege for a well oiled group to have extra time to do such a thing.

Others might feel differently but to me; Healer DPS should be more of a reward because the whole group are doing a good job, not a requirement.