Healers have an extremely limited number of offensive skills that aren't cross class. On top of that, they have long spell cast times. What part of that screams "hey, I'm a DPS machine" to you? To me it looks like they intentionally did it that way in order to HINDER healers from DPSing. Just because they changed their mind halfway down the friggen line(hall of noobs or w/e it's called). Doesn't make it the end all be all right. The hindrances that keep a healer from effectively DPSing Are. Still. There.

Once those hindrances are removed. THEN we can have this discussion.

P.S. PvP doesn't have cleric stance. I wonder why.