As a healer, is it my job to DPS? A new perspective.

[Lambdafish]

beats me why everything got to be skipped or rushed.

farm

You answered it yourself. If people are doing repeat runs for loot, the faster/easier the runs, the more runs can be done, its not a very difficult concept to understand. I don't really understand your "its more fun with a bit of challenge" mentality on the subject of farm, challenge is fun when you are clearing the content, but on farm you want to make the fight as a quick and efficient as is within the partys ability.