Should healers now be allowed to play how they choose to play?

[Lambdafish]

its always been like that for old content.

in an average skill level static, that it feels just the right difficulty, we can skip soar with my ast buff, but not always.

It hasn't always been this bad, and there is always room to change the formula if it improves player experience. When to comes to difficulty and overgearing, Leviathan and Ifrit kill you if you don't kill them at the right speed. Melusine became impossibly hard if you skipped phases. I remember that 2.x was problematic for people who did overgear, and forced people to parse (or use the % meter when it came out in 2.35) in order to slow DPS to the point where it was safe to continue. Zurvan is the first primal that had a blatent skippable mechanic on day one and it became such a normal thing for parties to expect you to be overgeared enough to cheese the fight that it became a meme, and that is a big sign that something needs to change about ilvl of new content.