I didn't think there was any way to swap Cleric's back in, after casting Protect, without suffering the full cooldown on all your skills - it looks like there is. So, that mitigates this somewhat, but if anything, it makes it even more of a non-issue. There's no good reason to demand Protect be cast in freaking Satasha. It's not going to make ANY difference.

If someone wants to slot in Protect and forget Cleric's entirely, then sure, that's fine. If someone wants to slot in Cleric's and forget Protect entirely, that's fine too. If someone wants to swap and use both, again, no problem. This, again, is a non-issue.

Which was my original point: I overstated the benefits of having Cleric's Stance on in those dungeons in a previous post, I'll admit, because my main reason to post was this absurd notion that some people were putting out that if you don't cast Protect in the starter dungeons, then you're a lousy healer and/or are lazy and/or are putting your party at risk for selfish reasons, etc.

It's nonsense.