Am I the only one fed up with DPS obsession?

[Bovinity]

This game is extremely bland mechanicswise. There is simply no other place to optimize except for dps.

Unfortunately there's a lot of truth to this. I don't want to get too deep into game comparisons, but you're right that comparing WoW healing specs with FFXIV healing classes is a good way to get an idea of the problem.

It's also part of the issue with the new 3.0 classes. The game has a simple class/ability structure and small 8-man raids. The 2.0 classes pretty much filled all the roles that the game made available, there's little room for anything different. So the 3.0 classes come along - and because they brought no real new ideas or mechanics - they are, in many ways, just poor clones or mashups of some 2.0 classes.