I have to agree with OP. It used to be, you learned a fight, knowing when you had a window to use cleric, throw out a bit of dps, then back to heal. Now you learn fights to know when to drop cleric, throw out one essential dignity, then back into cleric

I'll meld because it's the only thing feasibly worth melding. I don't need my heals to hit harder, pre-casting means SS doesn't bring much, and MP is not difficult to manage. There is so much time to dps, I may as well make sure my casts actually hit

To those saying they refuse to dps as heals. I understand you don't feel you should have to, but given there is no need to spam heal, I genuinely don't know what you're doing half the run, just standing there doing nothing or healing people who don't need healing