Do AST really need this Buff?

[LydiaF]

Being an AST main I gotta throw my two cents in here and say that I don't believe we need a buff to this degree.
That said, we're all discussing based on current content. It could be that over the course of SB we find that these changes were figured out by the Dev team to be necessary to keep up with new encounters etc.
Or maybe it really is just bad oversight on their part, we don't know yet until it's released.

My concern is healing boredom.
With this buff, the possible boredom that will come from safe healing and elongated windows for uninteresting dps rotations means I will be on auto pilot 100% of the time.
When I heal, I'm having the most fun when the odds are stacked against the party, when the party is taking damage and it's requiring quick reactions and be as alert as possible.

TL;DR I vote that this is an unnecessary buff. I do not enjoy easy healing with long, uninteresting dps rotations for a whole duties worth of content.