Reminder, don't clip /s , by clipping it, you changed the tone from sarcasm to serious. I was certainly being sarcastic with the part you quoted.

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Again, that is the result of imbalanced choices given what development has weighted, by accident or intention, highly (e.g. dps) or lowly. Just like no MMO ought to allow for the choice of an instant kill spell, as per your X-zone/Death example, ideally, nothing like Cleric Stance should stand as a "choice" when it is in fact not.

That said, the ~2% DPS contribution of the 4.0 Cleric Stance may well be such an option, so long as any other skill, e.g. Rescuing a laggy East-coast-er, would provide the same advantage to clear.
See this is what I pointed out. Why was Cleric Stance EVER a cross-class choice in the first place? Most of the cross-class skills come from Conjurer's list, but there is nothing from Scholar (E4E from Arcanist) and nothing at all from Astrologian. Hence the White Mage is alone in not having anything of any real use that can be pulled from another class.

But both Scholar and Astrologian want to pull Protect and Cleric stance. See the un-even problem?

This is why people feel that WHM is getting the short end of the stick, because we lose are most useful skills into the role system, that we never had to take from cross-class, and these other healer jobs lose nothing to cross-class. Sure Esuna is not Leeches, but if you've ever been level-synced as Scholar in a dungeon to below level 30, you had only the fairy to do everything except psysick. Obviously some of these changes are meant to fix imbalances like that. But why pick on WHM? Could SE have simply made Stone Skin, Protect and Esuna exclusive to WHM? Well then the other healers wouldn't have access to protect, and since it's needed all the way at level 16, something would have to be lost on AST and SCH. AST and SCH are only available at level 30.

So while I agree in principal that yes maybe these skills are needed by all healers, thus they should have been part of their skillset, it seems like these are all going to need to be changed when they drop the class system, and that likely means that Scholar loses it's entire arcanist toolkit at that point in time in favor of duplicating skills that AST and WHM already have. Maybe at that point WHM can get back some of it's skills it lost, and the levels change for Scholar's existing skills so they can be accessed at the same level as WHM.